A Short Story's Nine Lives: the translations of “The Dead”, by James Joyce, in Brazilian Portuguese (1942-2018)

• Main Authors: Vitor Alevato do Amaral, Elis Maria Cogo, Eloísa Dall’Bello
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2019-08-01
• Series: Gragoatá
• Subjects: james joyce, dubliners, “the dead”, translation.
• Online Access: https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/34088

This paper presents a study of the nine Brazilian Portuguese translations of “The Dead”, from Dubliners (1914), by the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). The first translation of this short story was published in 1942 and the last one in 2018. This paper is, probably, the first study that comprises all the translations of “The Dead” in Brazil: those that appear in one of the five complete translations of Dubliners (1964, 1992, 2012, 2012, 2018), those published as books (2014, 2016), the one inserted in a selection (2013) and the one published in a periodical (1942). This is a comparative study for which the authors have selected excerpts of the work in English to compare them with their translations as a means of valuing the work done in the translations, enlightening possibilities for interpretations and serving as a source for future translators of Joyce.