Översättning som språk : De andras röster i Eino Leinos dikter (Elmer Diktonius), Väino Linnas Tuntematon sotilas (Nils-Börje Stormbom, Sven-Olof Högnäs), och Kalevala (Lars Huldén, Mats Huldén, Eino Friberg).

• The article “Translation as Language” is divided into two parts. In the first I discuss the circumstances why, generally speaking, translation fails; why it succeeds; and what I mean by the premise embedded in the title. In the second, I analyze the translational flow between the Finnish poets Eino Leino and Elmer Diktonius (from Finnish into Swedish); an oral section collected from Väinö Linna's Tuntematon Sotilas and its translation from a Finnish dialect into a Finland-Swedish dialect by N-B Stormbom and Sven-Olof Högnäs; and finally two translations of 'Runo' 32, lines 251-272 in Kalevala, the first by Lars and Mats Huldén (Swedish) and the second by Eino Friberg (English). I discuss aspects of asymmetrical translation which may be the consequences of writer idolatry (the genius and the drunkard) or obsession with illusive and fundamentalist concepts such as the dichotomy of source and target, and the romances of 'faithfulness' and the 'origin.' Translations that maintain an interaction between the voices, that respect their individual Otherness, share, in metaphorical terms, a common language. In my analysis I define features that I call 'similarity in Otherness,' translation as language, in Leino--Diktonius, Linna--Stormbom/Högnäs, and Kalevala--Huldén/Friberg.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

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translation

Finland-Swedish literature

Kalevala

Väinö Linna

Elmer Diktonius

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