FRENCH FAIRY TALES BY MARKO VOVCHOK AND MYKOLA TERESHCHENKO’S TRANSLATION STRATEGY: INTERCULTURAL MEDIATION.
The French-language heritage of Marko Vovchok remains understudied, particularly with regard to its translation analysis, which underlines the relevance and topicality of this article. This study analyses Mykola Tereshchenko’s Ukrainian translations of Vovchok’s French fairy tales, aiming to identif...
| Publicado en: | Croatica et Slavica Iadertina Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 285 - 316 |
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University of Zadar, Department of Croatian & Slavic Studies
2025
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| Sumario: | The French-language heritage of Marko Vovchok remains understudied, particularly with regard to its translation analysis, which underlines the relevance and topicality of this article. This study analyses Mykola Tereshchenko’s Ukrainian translations of Vovchok’s French fairy tales, aiming to identify the characteristics of his translation strategy. For this purpose, the interpretive theory of translation (Seleskovitch & Lederer 1984), Berman’s concept of "deforming tendencies" (1984), and Venuti’s strategies (1995) were applied. The qualitative analysis is based on a comparative study of source and target texts. The results of this research demonstrate that a translator succeeded in achieving a balance in rendering original Vovchok’s idiostyle. The study has proved that the dominant translation strategy was domestication which, as a form of adaptation, inevitably involves the application of lexical and stylistic transformations. This is particularly noticeable when reproducing culturally marked elements, such as character names, realia, phraseological units, and folklore motifs. To implement the chosen strategy and to convey the emotive, expressive, and stylistic colouring of the fairy tales, also called children’s literature, the translator mostly employed the following techniques: modulation, concretisation, generalisation, cultural correspondence, explication, metaphorical preservation, remetaphorisation, functional adaptation. The investigation also revealed the occurrence of several of Berman’s "deforming tendencies", such as rationalisation, clarification, expansion, and qualitative impoverishment. These findings indicate that Tereshchenko’s translation strategies contribute to intercultural mediation, bridging the French originals and the Ukrainian readership. Future research could involve a comparative analysis of other translations of Vovchok’s French prose. Francuska jezična baština Marka Vovčoka ostaje nedovoljno istražena, osobito u pogledu analize prijevoda, što naglašava relevantnost i aktualnost ovoga članka. Ova studija analizira ukrajinske prijevode Vovčokovih francuskih bajki koje je izradio Mykola Tereščenko, s ciljem identificiranja značajki njegove strategije prevođenja. Za tu je svrhu primijenjena interpretativna teorija prevođenja (Seleskovitch i Lederer 1984), Bermanov koncept „deformirajućih tendencija" (1984) i Venutijeve strategije (1995). Kvalitativna analiza temelji se na komparativnoj studiji izvornoga i ciljnoga teksta. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da je prevoditelj uspio postići ravnotežu u prenošenju izvornoga Vovčokova idiostila. Studija je dokazala da je dominantna strategija prevođenja bila domestikacija, koja kao oblik adaptacije neizbježno uključuje primjenu leksičkih i stilskih transformacija. To je osobito vidljivo pri reprodukciji kulturno obilježenih elemenata, poput imena likova, realija, frazeoloških jedinica i folklornih motiva. Kako bi implementirao odabranu strategiju i prenio emotivno, ekspresivno i stilsko obojenje bajki, odnosno dječje literature, prevoditelj se najčešće koristio sljedećim tehnikama: modulacijom, konkretizacijom, generalizacijom, kulturnom korespondencijom, eksplicitiranjem, očuvanjem metafora, remetaforizacijom i funkcionalnom adaptacijom. Istraživanje je također otkrilo pojavu nekoliko Bermanovih „deformirajućih tendencija", poput racionalizacije, pojašnjenja, ekspanzije i kvalitativnoga osiromašenja. Ovi nalazi upućuju na to da Tereščenkove strategije prevođenja doprinose međukulturnomu posredovanju, povezujući francuske izvornike s ukrajinskim čitateljstvom. Buduća istraživanja mogla bi uključivati komparativnu analizu drugih prijevoda Vovčokove francuske proze. |
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