Župančič and Fiction: His Translation of Oliver Twist
Keywords:
fiction (O. Župančič, Ch. Dickens), translation of fictionAbstract
The translation of Dickens’ Oliver Twist, which is the first in the long series of Župančič’s translated novels, opens a general question: how the modern poet introduced realistically oriented European fiction in the period (1911) when the 19th century realism was definitely surpassed by symbolistic prose in the Slovenian literature. Župančič reconstructed an artistically refined and therefore generally approved text in which he successfully recreated the irony, comical effects and other means with which the author’s point of view is emphasized, while on the other hand he condensed neutral passages or transformed them freely into expressive ones. With these and other minor but not meaningless liberties he blurred the realistic features of the original and reinforced the romantic ones, thus completing the historically conditioned transformation of the novel with a strong tendency to social criticism into a pure fictional story.References
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