Uma tradução comentada do conto “The three strangers” de Thomas Hardy

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to propose an commented translation into Brazilian Portuguese of the short story “The Three Strangers”, by the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). With the aim of delving deeper into Hardyan literature and exposing the historical issues that are portrayed in the text. The author is known for his unique vision of English society at the time and for his idiosyncratic prose. Although we have a good number of texts written by Hardy translated in Brazil, it is necessary to cover the author's work in the country, especially seeking different views of his works. The short story belongs to the book Wessex Tales (1888), where the author brings together several of his stories previously published in magazines of the time. The annotated translation that he develops encompasses four parameters that were developed based on Levý (2000) and Berman (1985). Furthermore, I make clear the idea of the translator as author, since the translation is an original text, even though we seek to maintain as much as possible the main idea of the source text. We can understand as a secondary point of the research a small cultural study of Victorian England, in Hardy's literary vision. The theoretical concepts we use are based on studies by Torres (2017), Williams and Chesterman (2002) and Paganine (2011)