Correcting the master: Eirin Mouré, Alberto Caeiro, and the politics of “transelation”
Keywords:
tradução, transelação, transculturação, Fernando Pessoa, heterônimoAbstract
This article examines the “transelation” of Alberto Caeiro’s O guardador de rebanhos by Erin Mouré (Eirin Moure). Since Mouré takes considerable liberties with the poems by the Fernando Pessoa heteronym, she problematizes the extent to which a text can be an independent creation and still be a translation. KEY WORDS: translation, transelation, transculturation, Fernando Pessoa, heteronym.
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