Guimarães Rosa em tradução para o inglês: história, recepção e crítica

Abstract

The translation of Guimarães Rosa’s works is discussed from various angles, highlighting the difficulty of transposing the originality of his work in Portuguese into other languages. In this article, we seek to present a history of the author’s translation into English, focusing on the importance of the historical and political context in which these translations took place. To this end, we present a brief overview of the translations and the historical circumstances surrounding the translation process, based on Barbosa (1994), Fitz (2005, 2020), Liporaci (2013), and Morinaka (2017). From this analysis, we conclude that we cannot rule out the image of Brazilian literature abroad and the relations between Brazil and the United States as factors influencing the reception and criticism of Rosa’s translations in the target culture.