Escritores e tradutores na literatura brasileira: perspectivas contemporâneas

Abstract

In 2019, there has began the activities of the research project "Literature, translation and culture: writer-translators in Brazilian literature". This research project was created within the scope of the Letters courses of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Communication of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. The project aims to investigate the extent to which translation contributed to the constitution of the aesthetic and intellectual projects of Brazilian writers who, throughout their trajectories, dedicated themselves to the translation task as translators. Therefore, based on the postulates of comparative literature, literary translation studies and cultural studies, it turns to a conceptual formulation of the rubric "writers-translators", seeking to examine how the projects of some Brazilian writers behaved in the face of the phenomenon of translation in multiple contexts. Thus, the present book turns [...] to one of the substantial phenomena in literature: the place and role of Brazilian writers as translators. Consequently, it places translation in its prominent place in the field of literary studies, as well as seeking to highlight the aesthetic, historical, literary and cultural discussion inherent in translational acts as mediators in the relationship with the other. With the hope that this volume will contribute to new debates in the field of literary translation, we thank the researchers who contributed to it, and we wish you all a good read.