Pai contra mãe” e “father against mother” de Machado de Assis: uma análise comparativa da tradução

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the tale Pai contra mãe, by the writer Machado de Assis, comparing with the same tale translated into English, Father Against Mother, by Professor John Charles Chasteen. In the story, Machado shifts the focus from the psychological representation of the characters to the events surrounding them, thus exposing the relation between the landowner, free man and slave in a society in which slavery was still a trend. For this relationship to be maintained in the translation of the tale into English, it is necessary that it go beyond the linguistic question and also consider the culture that is impregnated in the original text. Therefore, to reach the defined objective and to observe whether or not the preservation of the meaning of the text in the translated language, the researches of Travaglia (2003), Arrojo (2003), Oustinoff (2011), among others scholars of Translation Theories it was used to support the analysis of the corpus. The analysis is made comparing the two versions of the tale, taking into account linguistic elements that evidence the maintenance of the meaning of the text in relation to others that alter it and allow another reading, maintaining or not the culture that is being represented with the source text.