Considerações sobre a tradução brasileira de Die Idee des Guten zwischen Plato und Aristoteles de Hans-Georg Gadamer à luz de preceitos teóricos de Jiří Levý

Abstract

The translation of philosophical texts requires different strategies, such as: a) translator’s notes; b) explanations as direct elements of the text; and c) semantic juggling under linguistically and culturally diverse perspectives. In order to accomplish the Brazilian translation of Gadamer’s abovementioned book, the translator used footnotes to emphasize nuances of certain German philosophical terms and some correspondences between German and Greek, as conceived originally by the German philosopher. The main purpose of this paper is to point out how useful translators’ notes can be to overcome some obstacles in the translation of Gadamer’s book into Brazilian Portuguese, a language in which the close links between German and Greek cannot always be maintained in the “same” way. To surmount the translation’s agon imposed by Gadamer’s text, in such a case the translator can appeal to some of the concepts advocated by Jiří Levý, e.g.: a) Semantic values and ideo-aesthetic content; b) Functionality of the target-text; c) Linguistic conditioning, linguistic form and ideo-aesthetic content; d) Minimization of difficulties; e) Re-stylization of the source-text.