The Six Lives of Celestine: Octave Mirbeau and the Spanish Translations of "Le Journal d'une femme de chambre" (Chapters I and II)

Abstract

Las dos traducciones de Le Journal d une femme de chambre publicadas en España la primera en 1974, a cargo de Julio C. Acerete, y la segunda en 1993, a cargo de María Dolores Fernández Lladó ofrecen al lector diferentes visiones de un original dictadas por la evolución del canon lingüístico.

The six translations of "Le Journal d'une femme de chambre" published in Spain - the first one in 1901 and the last one in 1993 - offer readers different versions of an original text dictated by the evolution of the sociological and cultural context that informed it. This chapter tries to rediscover the identity of the translators and to reflect on their role as historical subjects.