Final Project Proposal (Change)
Originally, I wanted to create a blog as my final project. However, after reading “The Slave Girl,” a short story by 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric, I decided that I would be more interested in translating it from Serbo-Croatian language. The story focuses on a young girl being sold as a slave to an Ottoman Turk, who decides to take her destiny into her own hands.
I think that the first thing I should do is read the text several times in it’s original language, in order to fully grasp the meaning of it and gain a better understand at what tone and message the author wanted to portray to the reader. After that, I will read the translation that has already been completed while thinking about my own choice of words, and perhaps think about what I might do differently from the already-made translation.
A lot of focus in my analytical essay will probably be on the choices given to translators, and how those choices can make or break the finished work. That being said, I believe the biggest problem for me will be finding appropriate words to translate phrases that might be nearly hard to literally translate into English.
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