Para aquellos de nosotros acostumbrados a leer en m\u00e1s de un idioma, las versiones traducidas de nuestras novelas favoritas y antolog\u00edas de poes\u00eda pueden parecer un poco problem\u00e1ticas. No hace falta decir que el tener traducciones a mano (buenas traducciones, claro) en un momento dado es maravilloso: dif\u00edcilmente se podr\u00eda imaginar tener que prescindir de los favoritos rusos, alemanes o japoneses. Sin embargo, a veces uno se ve obligado a leer una versi\u00f3n traducida a pesar de ser capaz de leerlo en su idioma original, debido a la falta de disponibilidad de los originales, y es aqu\u00ed donde pueden surgir discrepancias. Por ejemplo, leer la poes\u00eda de Charles Bukowski en espa\u00f1ol ya es algo dif\u00edcil de comprender, pero leer una versi\u00f3n mal traducida puede hacer las cosas mucho peor.
Tomemos en consideraci\u00f3n el poema \u00abAlone with Everybody\u00bb (A solas con todo el mundo). Dice lo siguiente:<\/p>\n
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.<\/p>\n
there\u2019s no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.<\/p>\n
nobody ever finds
the one.<\/p>\n
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill<\/p>\n
nothing else
fills.<\/p>\n
El problema con la traducci\u00f3n al espa\u00f1ol de un poema como este, es que los diferentes pa\u00edses y las diferentes zonas dentro de esos pa\u00edses hablan distintos dialectos de espa\u00f1ol, hay muchas variaciones. Sin embargo, en este poema la traducci\u00f3n de \u00abthe one\u00bb es la principal dificultad ya que en ingl\u00e9s esta frase se refiere a la pareja, mientras que algunas traducciones al espa\u00f1ol han utilizado \u00abel otro\u00bb para transmitir el significado de otra persona, que no logra transmitir el original, el concepto que se pretend\u00eda. Adem\u00e1s, las \u00faltimas l\u00edneas del poema dicen \u00abnothing else\/fills\u00bb, mientras que en espa\u00f1ol algunos han usado \u00abm\u00e1s nada\/se llena\u00bb, lo que complica las cosas: el pronombre personal en forma de dativo \u00abse\u00bb ciertamente no est\u00e1 incluido en la versi\u00f3n original en ingl\u00e9s. Decir \u00abm\u00e1s nada\/se llena\u00bb implica que nada m\u00e1s se llena por s\u00ed solo, dejando de lado la posibilidad de usar \u00abfills\u00bb como un verbo activo. No hace falta decir que el resto del poema y su traducci\u00f3n son tambi\u00e9n cosas para tener en consideraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Para aquellos de nosotros acostumbrados a leer en m\u00e1s de un idioma, las versiones traducidas de nuestras novelas favoritas y antolog\u00edas de poes\u00eda pueden parecer un poco problem\u00e1ticas. No hace\u2026\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8893],"tags":[8935,9573,9701],"class_list":["post-114242","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-para-traductores","tag-ingles","tag-poema","tag-traduccion-espanol"],"yoast_head":"\n