Pale Fire romanının Türkçe çevirisindeki çevirmen ön sözü ve notları: Çevirmenin yan-metinsel müdahaleleri ne ölçüde yerinde?

Abstract

Along with the emergence of the widely accepted approaches in Translation Studies that perceive the act of translating as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon rather than a mere text-level linguistic activity, the circumstances that surround the source as well as the target texts has become more visible and are therefore increasingly scrutinized in academic circles. As a result, any translation-oriented text analysis that does not take in to consideration such relevant circumstances that bring about the source text or its translation (such as commercial and ideological realities, purposes for or functions of both the original and the target texts, intended readerships, the backgrounds of both the author and the translator etc.), run the risk of failure. The role of the translator as the reader, interpreter of the source text and writer of the target text has a decisive importance. The translator, particularly while fulfilling his role as writer either remains relatively hidden or can become quite visible through the published text. As this issue with visibility may have a great influence on the perception of the readership on the translation, it has become of ever-increasing interest for academic researchers. The ways in which a translator becomes visible are various and particularly in literary translations, para-textual elements that accompany the main body of the text come to the forefront. This paper examines the Turkish translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel Pale Fire via certain para-textual elements, namely translator’s foreword and footnotes, in order to portrait the image of its translator and the possible impact of this crystallizing picture on the readers.