L’homme qui parlait javanais a partir da analítica bermaniana

Abstract

First published in 1911, Lima Barreto’s “O homem que sabia javanês” is his most translated short story. Monique Le Moing’s translation into French published in 2012, “L’homme qui parlait javanais” seems to present in his title a different narrator-protagonist, which brings us to the question: is the man who knew Javanese the same man who spoke Javanese? For this article, we selected five excerpts of the short story where the change in the character’s reading is more evident. We seek to identify in each one the deforming tendencies (BERMAN, 2014) that acted directly on this change.