Abstract
This article explores Roberto Ferro’s novel El otro Joyce (2011), a work of translational literature that straddles two languages and two literary traditions. Its protagonist, Jorge Cáceres, runs a small business researching patents, missing books, and missing persons. The novel’s plot follows him as he works to solve two mysteries: one related to the search for a first edition of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, annotated by Jorge Luis Borges, and the second related to the suspicious death of Marcos Almeida, a prominent financier. Much like Finnegans Wake, El otro Joyce is a highly self-conscious narrative teeming with digressions and literary allusions. Cáceres’s work is constantly hindered and confused by the appearance of doubles, a theme that relates to the act of translation and also to betrayal, present throughout the novel. Part detective narrative and part historical metafiction, Ferro’s novel is a reflection on the continuing role of Joyce in the Argentine literary tradition—a tradition inseparable from the act of translation.
Highlights
The title of Roberto Ferro’s 2011 novel, El otro Joyce, hints immediately at impostors, or copies
The novel’s plot follows him as he works to solve two mysteries: one related to the search for a first edition of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, annotated by Jorge Luis Borges, and the second related to the suspicious death of Marcos Almeida, a prominent financier
Jorge Luis Borges translated the last page of Ulysses for his 1925 review of the novel, and was later invited to participate in a commission of Anglo-literary scholars who planned to work on translating Ulysses in its entirety during the early 1940s
Summary
The title of Roberto Ferro’s 2011 novel, El otro Joyce, hints immediately at impostors, or copies. ABSTRACT: This article explores Roberto Ferro’s novel El otro Joyce (2011), a work of translational literature that straddles two languages and two literary traditions.
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