Abstract
This essay focuses on the ambivalent relationship between Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce from the perspective of literary translation as well as of the Argentinian writer’s fluctuating attitude towards his Irish counterpart. Both writers are polylingual artists and life-long translators. Borges was fond of making provocative statements about translation, though his own translations are rarely as radical as his theories about the craft. He could not enjoy the comparatively unfettered freedom of a self-translator like Joyce, whose Italianizing rendering of an excerpt from Finnegans Wake is more Borgesian than Borges.
Highlights
This essay focuses on the ambivalent relationship between Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce from the perspective of literary translation as well as of the Argentinian writer’s fluctuating attitude towards his Irish counterpart
The relationship between Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce begins on an ambivalent note
The verbal obsession for which Borges criticizes Joyce, especially in Finnegans Wake, is one that, as he concedes towards the end of his life, he himself shares
Summary
This essay focuses on the ambivalent relationship between Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce from the perspective of literary translation as well as of the Argentinian writer’s fluctuating attitude towards his Irish counterpart. Joyce played the leading role in a collaborative Italian translation of a portion of the eight “Anna Livia Plurabelle” chapter in Finnegans Wake.
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