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Roberta Antognini
Translating The Undivine Comedy
Since a scholarly work is a kind of translation, translating it can be harder than literature. It requires interdisciplinary knowledge, aesthetic sensitivity, and the ability to hear the author’s voice. While translating The Undivine Comedy, I felt I was reliving my student days in the eighties, listening to Barolini at NYU. Revisiting my work now, I focus on Geryon — the ver ch’ha faccia di menzogna — to reflect on the complex, possibly menzognero process from which a new text emerges from the original.
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Translating The Undivine Comedy
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Roberta Antognini
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Since a scholarly work is a kind of translation, translating it can be harder than literature. It requires interdisciplinary knowledge, aesthetic sensitivity, and the ability to hear the author’s voice. While translating The Undivine Comedy, I felt I was reliving my student days in the eighties, listening to Barolini at NYU. Revisiting my work now, I focus on Geryon — the ver ch’ha faccia di menzogna — to reflect on the complex, possibly menzognero process from which a new text emerges from the original.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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December 2025
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translation
non-fiction translation
translator’s invisibility
Geryon
Jakobson, Roman
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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349
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366
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A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy, ed. by Kristina M. Olson, Cultural Inquiry, 37 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 349–66
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