Abstract
The Retranslation Hypothesis (RH), initially outlined by Antoine Berman (1990) and Paul Bensimon (1990) and later presented as a descriptive hypothesis by Andrew Chesterman (2000), states that retranslations of the same Source Text into the same Target Language tend to be closer to the original than earlier translations. This means that retranslations would tend to foreignize the original, i.e. they would display the linguistic and cultural peculiarities of the original, which were mostly obliterated in previous translations. As Yves Gambier (1994) points out only through a corpus-based analysis is it possible to test RH. The corpus for our description and analysis included the original Spanish text of the novel (1967), the first Russian translation by Nina Butyrina & Valerii Stolbov (1970), and the retranslation by Margarita I. Bylinkina (2011). Gregory Rabassa’s English translation (1970) was used as a tertium comparationis. The results of our research indicate that RH was confirmed in the foreignizing narrative mode of the retranslation, but disproved in its domesticating dialogic mode.
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