Mauricio M Cardozo
Universidade Federal do Paraná, DEPAC, Faculty Member
- Translation and Criticism, Translation Studies, Translation and Poetry, Translation and Philosophy, Translation and the Problematics of Relation, Poiesis of Relation, and 9 morePaul Celan, Translation and Ethics, Literary Theory, poetry and Philosophy, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Problematics of Relation, Derrida and the Problematics of Translation, Goethe, Literature, and Translation and Relationedit
- Professor titular de Teoria da Tradução e Tradução Literária da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) e pesquisador d... moreProfessor titular de Teoria da Tradução e Tradução Literária da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) e pesquisador do CNPq desde 2011. Atua no Curso de Bacharelado em Letras com ênfase nos Estudos da Tradução e no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, na área de concentração em Estudos Literários, desenvolvendo e orientando, ao nível de graduação, mestrado, doutorado e pós-doutorado, projetos de pesquisa nas áreas de Teoria da Tradução, Tradução Literária, Teoria Literária e Literatura Alemã, com foco nas relações da tradução com a Crítica, com a Poesia e com o Pensamento Contemporâneo. É licenciado em Letras: Língua e Literatura Alemã (1994), pela UFPR, mestre em Letras: Língua e Literatura Alemã (1999), pela USP, e doutor em Letras: Língua e Literatura Alemã (2004), pela USP e pela Universidade de Leipzig, Alemanha. Fez estágios de pós-doutorado: na PUC-Rio (supervisão de Maria Paula Frota, 2009-2010); na Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Alemanha, e na Univeristé de Strasbourg, França (supervisão de Dilek Dizdar e Jean-Luc Nancy, 2013-2014); e no Programa de Pós-graduação em Teoria e História Literária da Unicamp e no Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Literatura, da UFRJ (supervisão de Marcos Siscar e Marcelo Jacques de Moraes, 2018-2019). Foi tesoureiro da Associação Brasileira de Associações de Professores de Alemão (ABRAPA, 1997-2000), secretário-adjunto do Centro de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários do Paraná (CELLIP, 2000-2001), segundo-tesoureiro da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC, 2009-2011), co-coordenador do GT Estudos da Tradução (GTTRAD-ANPOLL, 2008-2010 e 2010-2012) e coordenador do Fórum de Coordenadores de PPG da Região Sul (2020). Também foi vice-coordenador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras da UFPR (2009-2011) e coordenador desse mesmo Programa, gestão 2019-2021. É tradutor de literatura, com trabalhos em poesia moderna e contemporânea (e.e.cummings, Paul Celan, Rilke, Else Lasker-Schüler) e narrativa alemã do século XIX (Theodor Storm, Heinrich Heine, Goethe). Em 2008 foi finalista do Prêmio Jabuti, na categoria de Tradução literária, com a obra O Tigre de Veludo, tradução de poemas de e.e.cummings. Em 2018 foi contemplado com o Prêmio Paulo Rónai de Tradução, da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, com a tradução da obra De minha vida: Poesia e Verdade, de Goethe.edit
FuLiA/UFMG , Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasil, v. 9, n. 2, p. 47–70, 2024. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/fulia/article/view/49210 During a football match, the game is played for about 90 minutes, and it is during this time... more
FuLiA/UFMG , Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasil, v. 9, n. 2, p. 47–70, 2024.
https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/fulia/article/view/49210
During a football match, the game is played for about 90 minutes, and it is during this time that the game is constructed as a critical, aesthetic, historical object, acquiring new rhythms and tensions, creating twists and turns, reshaping hierarchies, and thus revealing itself to be an intensely ephemeral and dynamic experience. When the referee blows the final whistle, the game is over, the players go to the changing rooms, the final score is known, but the game remains in construction as an interpretive object, as it continues to be debated and contested by both ordinary peopleand soccer analysts, undergoingevery possiblere-signification. Starting from an attempt to relate the worlds of footballand literature, since both produce objects which keep being reinterpreted by critics, this essay discusses the concepts of football-artand translation-art
https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/fulia/article/view/49210
During a football match, the game is played for about 90 minutes, and it is during this time that the game is constructed as a critical, aesthetic, historical object, acquiring new rhythms and tensions, creating twists and turns, reshaping hierarchies, and thus revealing itself to be an intensely ephemeral and dynamic experience. When the referee blows the final whistle, the game is over, the players go to the changing rooms, the final score is known, but the game remains in construction as an interpretive object, as it continues to be debated and contested by both ordinary peopleand soccer analysts, undergoingevery possiblere-signification. Starting from an attempt to relate the worlds of footballand literature, since both produce objects which keep being reinterpreted by critics, this essay discusses the concepts of football-artand translation-art
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Notes on Translation, Alterity, and Relationality: From the Regimes of Indistinction to the Disclosure of Relation. In: David M. Spitzer, Paulo Oliveira (Org.). Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation: Essays in... more
Notes on Translation, Alterity, and Relationality: From the Regimes of Indistinction to the Disclosure of Relation. In: David M. Spitzer, Paulo Oliveira (Org.). Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation: Essays in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo. Nova Iorque e Londres: Routledge, 2022, p. 187-199
Translation is often associated with the idea of connecting, mediating, approaching. However, even if the relational experience of translation is so evidently marked by the semantic strength of these and other conjunctive figures, a relational reason restricted to the force of this evidence fails to take into account the equally constitutive character of the disjunctive dimension of any relation. In other words: although translation seems to operate as a conjunctive force in a space between languages, it does not do so only by bridging different things in space, but also as a kind of spacing force that is able to produce a certain rupture with regimes of indistinction, allowing perceptions of an I and an other to emerge and to transform one another. Starting from the epistemological rupture promoted by the work of Rosemary Arrojo and other contemporary thinkers, this set of numbered notes aim at discussing translation beyond its conjunctive dimension, with special attention to the disjunctive forces that also constitute it as a relational poiesis.
Translation is often associated with the idea of connecting, mediating, approaching. However, even if the relational experience of translation is so evidently marked by the semantic strength of these and other conjunctive figures, a relational reason restricted to the force of this evidence fails to take into account the equally constitutive character of the disjunctive dimension of any relation. In other words: although translation seems to operate as a conjunctive force in a space between languages, it does not do so only by bridging different things in space, but also as a kind of spacing force that is able to produce a certain rupture with regimes of indistinction, allowing perceptions of an I and an other to emerge and to transform one another. Starting from the epistemological rupture promoted by the work of Rosemary Arrojo and other contemporary thinkers, this set of numbered notes aim at discussing translation beyond its conjunctive dimension, with special attention to the disjunctive forces that also constitute it as a relational poiesis.
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CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça. Traduire: dire, penser, faire la 'relation'. In: Bénédicte Gorrillot, Marcelo Jacques de Moraes, Marcos Siscar (org). Poésie en transit entre France et Brésil : quelques préliminaires. Revue des Sciences... more
CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça. Traduire: dire, penser, faire la 'relation'. In: Bénédicte Gorrillot, Marcelo Jacques de Moraes, Marcos Siscar (org). Poésie en transit entre France et Brésil : quelques préliminaires. Revue des Sciences Humaines, 346, p.11-18, 2022.
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Texto de apresentação + tradução do ensaio "Tradução e a figura da fronteira: por uma apreensão da tradução como ação social", de NAOKI SAKAI. CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça; RODRIGUES, Cristina C. ; NERI, Angélica ; BERNARDES, Guilherme ;... more
Texto de apresentação + tradução do ensaio "Tradução e a figura da fronteira: por uma apreensão da tradução como ação social", de NAOKI SAKAI.
CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça; RODRIGUES, Cristina C. ; NERI, Angélica ; BERNARDES, Guilherme ; KOEPSEL, H. "Naoki Sakai: tradução e a fronteira como poiesis". In: Lenita Esteves. (Org.). O traduzir traduzido: diálogos com a tradução. São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2019, p. 230-243.
CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça; RODRIGUES, Cristina C. ; NERI, Angélica ; BERNARDES, Guilherme ; KOEPSEL, H. "Tradução e a figura da fronteira: por uma apreensão da tradução como ação social, de Naoki Sakai". In: Lenita Esteves. (Org.). O traduzir traduzido: diálogos com a tradução. São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2019, p. 244-260.
O livro, na íntegra, está disponível gratuitamente no seguinte link: http://www.livrosabertos.sibi.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/view/401/354/1433-1
CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça; RODRIGUES, Cristina C. ; NERI, Angélica ; BERNARDES, Guilherme ; KOEPSEL, H. "Naoki Sakai: tradução e a fronteira como poiesis". In: Lenita Esteves. (Org.). O traduzir traduzido: diálogos com a tradução. São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2019, p. 230-243.
CARDOZO, Mauricio Mendonça; RODRIGUES, Cristina C. ; NERI, Angélica ; BERNARDES, Guilherme ; KOEPSEL, H. "Tradução e a figura da fronteira: por uma apreensão da tradução como ação social, de Naoki Sakai". In: Lenita Esteves. (Org.). O traduzir traduzido: diálogos com a tradução. São Paulo: FFLCH/USP, 2019, p. 244-260.
O livro, na íntegra, está disponível gratuitamente no seguinte link: http://www.livrosabertos.sibi.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/view/401/354/1433-1
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Resumo: Este ensaio tem por objetivo discutir os diferentes sentidos da noção de traduzir como remontar, explorando as acepções desse verbo em português, seja no sentido da (re)montagem (em sua acepção como técnica cinematográfica), seja... more
Resumo: Este ensaio tem por objetivo discutir os diferentes sentidos da noção de traduzir como remontar, explorando as acepções desse verbo em português, seja no sentido da (re)montagem (em sua acepção como técnica cinematográfica), seja no sentido da referência a uma origem. À luz dessa reflexão preliminar, este ensaio faz uma breve reflexão sobre as relações entre tradução e antologia, encerrando-se com uma leitura crítica do projeto de tradução da poesia de Bertolt Brecht, publicada por André Vallias em 2019.
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In: CESCO, A.; ABES, G.; BERGMANN, J. História da Tradução: potências de um diálogo. Florianópolis: Rafael Copetti Editor, 2021, p.9-34.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é repensar o sentido de uma crítica fundada na condicionalidade da relação tradutória e apontar os diferentes horizontes que se abrem a uma crítica de tradução que leve em consideração a liminaridade e a... more
O objetivo deste trabalho é repensar o sentido de uma crítica fundada na condicionalidade da relação tradutória e apontar os diferentes horizontes que se abrem a uma crítica de tradução que leve em consideração a liminaridade e a incondicionalidade da poiesis da relação.
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It is not uncommon to assume nowadays that translations are always dated and, therefore, they have a kind of shelf life. In this sense, while original works perpetuate themselves in a form of perennial vitality, manifested in what Walter... more
It is not uncommon to assume nowadays that translations are always dated and, therefore, they have a kind of shelf life. In this sense, while original works perpetuate themselves in a form of perennial vitality, manifested in what Walter Benjamin (2011) called its Fortleben, translations of these works manifest the frailty of its provisional and ephemeral condition: it is from this perspective that we will say that translations simply grow old. However, in saying that, aren’t we assuming already that translations too are inscribed in time, and thus that they constitute in themselves a unique and singular form of life? In other words, would not their aging be a sign of the singularity of their form of life, of a form of life like works in themselves? Based on the assumption that, beyond representing a form of life for original works, translations also constitute in themselves a singular form of life (CARDOZO, 2017), this paper aims at discussing some of these issues, in order to rethink the possible meanings of the idea of aging of translations.
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Starting from the point of view that a contemporary thought on translation cannot ignore a consequent integration of the contemporary notions of subjectivity and language – recognizing the translator as a subject, the translation practice... more
Starting from the point of view that a contemporary thought on translation cannot ignore a consequent integration of the contemporary notions of subjectivity and language – recognizing the translator as a subject, the translation practice as a transformative and critical activity, and its product, the translated text, as a singular object –, one cannot ignore the idea that, beyond representing a form of life and death to the original text, the translated text also constitutes in itself a singular form of life and death. Therefore, it is necessary to take into consideration that, notwithstanding the temporality that the translated text represents to other texts (such as the original), it also establishes a temporality of its own: a time of the translation. And as readers and critics, it is also necessary to consider the consequences of this time dimensioning of the translation in our relationship with the translated text. This essay aims at discussing preliminarily some aspects of the issue of time of the translation, understood here as the singular form of life and death constituted by the translation.
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By taking the work of the German-speaking poet Paul Celan into consideration, as well as his reflections on poetic practice, I shall, in the present article, question the notion of ethical dynamics deriving from an interdependent... more
By taking the work of the German-speaking poet Paul Celan into consideration, as well as his reflections on poetic practice, I shall, in the present article, question the notion of ethical dynamics deriving from an interdependent relationship between poetic space and practice. Such dynamics, in turn, establishes itself as a possibility of both transformation and outliving of the place that poetry takes in the contemporary world
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The idea that the relation to the other happens as an immediate way to access otherness is quite widespread. In this sense, the accomplishment of the relation would be determined by the figure of the continuity (of another in us, of us in... more
The idea that the relation to the other happens as an immediate way to access otherness is quite widespread. In this sense, the accomplishment of the relation would be determined by the figure of the continuity (of another in us, of us in another), ensuring thus an accessibility to otherness as a totalizable identity or simply as an identity unit. Based on a broader reflection on time issues in the relation, with particular attention to the discussion of concepts such as duration and contemporaneity, this paper aims at discussing preliminarily the notions of both unity in the literary work and continuity in translation, taking into account the assumption that these notions are built up as a sort of fiction of continuity inscribed in a condition of discontinuity.
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In the last decade, some Brazilian publishers invested in new translations of classics of foreign literature, especially those who have long been circulating in Portuguese, but in so called indirect translations. The most recent cases of... more
In the last decade, some Brazilian publishers invested in new translations of classics of foreign literature, especially those who have long been circulating in Portuguese, but in so called indirect translations. The most recent cases of new translations of Russian and German literature are exemplary in this sense. The numbers are significant and we can recognize there a new trend, but cum grano salis. Statistics also show that these numbers are not as expressive as to allow a generalization of the trend as a rule for all the Brazilian publishing field, even if restricted to the literary market. For translation studies, however, this trend gives new life to the discussion on the various issues involved in this kind of translation. This papers aims to point out the limits and possibilities of direct and indirect translation and to reflect on their implications for the critique of literary translation
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Departing from a broader reflection on the issue of alterity, based on some essays by Jean-Christophe Bailly on the condition of the animal, this essay aims at discussing the reductionist way we usually read a poem in translation, taking... more
Departing from a broader reflection on the issue of alterity, based on some essays by Jean-Christophe Bailly on the condition of the animal, this essay aims at discussing the reductionist way we usually read a poem in translation, taking into account the possibilities that open up when we allow ourselves to be surprised by the condition of the translated poem as a singular form of life.
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Em Pour une critique des traductions (1995), obra póstuma de Antoine Berman e uma das obras mais importantes sobre a crítica de tradução literária no século XX, o autor, partindo de uma concepção de tradução como atividade de ordem... more
Em Pour une critique des traductions (1995), obra póstuma de Antoine Berman e uma das obras mais importantes sobre a crítica de tradução literária no século XX, o autor, partindo de uma concepção de tradução como atividade de ordem crítica, coloca-nos diante da tarefa de aprender a ler as traduções como tal. Para dar conta dessa tarefa, seria preciso, por sua vez, reinventar o(s) modo(s) de ler as traduções. Este trabalho tem por objetivo repensar os termos dessa leitura Bermaniana da tradução e discutir suas implicações para a crítica e para uma história da tradução literária.
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Assuming a general understanding of translation as poiesis of relation, as a discursive practice that builds up a whole set of relations, translations demand a reading centered on the meaning of their differences – whereby the pointing... more
Assuming a general understanding of translation as poiesis of relation, as a discursive practice that builds up a whole set of relations, translations demand a reading centered on the meaning of their differences – whereby the pointing out of difference is to be understood as one of the starting points of translation criticism, and not as an end in itself -, i.e., a reading centered on the meaning of the relations from which differentness and identity stem. Regarding the translational practice as a critical undertaking – in the terms discussed by Antoine Berman in his Pour une critique des traductions (1995), and on the basis of the understanding of literary translation and criticism in the context of the German Romanticism -, I intend to underline the critical possibilities that the notion of translation project opens up for the translation practice itself, as well as for the literary translation criticism.
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The Journey to the Land without Death (1937) is the first of the three volumes of Döblin’s South-America Trilogy Amazonas. Based upon the work of ethnologists like Theodor Koch- Grünberg, whose work constitutes also an important reference... more
The Journey to the Land without Death (1937) is the first of the three volumes of Döblin’s South-America Trilogy Amazonas. Based upon the work of ethnologists like Theodor Koch- Grünberg, whose work constitutes also an important reference for Mario de Andrade’s Macunaíma (1928), Döblin doesn’t simply translate those ethnographic notes of a “primitive” culture on the perspective of a culture that pretends to be “civilized”: he invites the reader to discover himself in this other culture apparently so “primitive”. In other words, instead of simply experiencing a “translation of the other”, Döblin invites the reader to “translate himself upon this Otherness”, finding out an Other that is unbelievably human. This paper aims at a preliminary discussion of Döblin’s Alterity equation, i.e. of the way he poses the problem of Otherness in his Trilogy. This discussion outlines the critical principles of a possible translation project of this Work to Brazilian Portuguese.
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Tensioned between variations of the said and the unsaid, and between figures of light and shadow, Paul Celan's work performs a certain confrontation with the condition of silence and obscurity, breaking all at once with a certain way of... more
Tensioned between variations of the said and the unsaid, and between figures of light and shadow, Paul Celan's work performs a certain confrontation with the condition of silence and obscurity, breaking all at once with a certain way of making poetry and of relating to reality. In this sense, Celan's work can hardly be reduced to a kind of hermeticism, a category too vague to account for its singularity. In his work saying and silencing together articulate the tension that creates the poetic space in which the poem is inscribed. The poet himself tried to refuse the insistence of some critics on labeling his work as obscure. Despite of its fragmentary nature, the recently published manuscripts of his speech project Von der Dunkelheit des Dichterischen constitutes one of Celan’s most extensive discussions of the matter of obscurity in poetry. This paper aims at presenting the fragments of his speech project and pointing out its importance to the discussion of the notion of obscurity in Paul Celan's work.
Much is said about what a translation should do. Traditionally, such duties of translation are grounded on the assumption that translating is saying again, saying something that takes the place of another saying. From there arises a sense... more
Much is said about what a translation should do. Traditionally, such duties of translation are grounded on the assumption that translating is saying again, saying something that takes the place of another saying. From there arises a sense of responsibility that is strongly linked to the saying of the other, to the idea of another subscribed by his saying. However, the state of art of contemporary thought does not allow us to reduce the other to the limits of his sayings, since one cannot ignore the other’s irreducibility, the irreducibility of the silences beyond his sayings. In this sense, how tore think, now a days, the responsibility implied in the practical and in the ethical dimensions that ground the ontological status of the translation? On the basis of a reading of Levinas’s notion of responsibility to the other and of other reverberations specially in the work of Paul Celan, Jacques Derrida and Jean--Luc Nancy, this paper aims at pointing out some implications of Levinas’s notion of responsibility to the reading and to the criticism of translation.
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This paper aims at rethinking the meaning of a criticism based on the conditionality of the translational relation and at pointing out the different horizons opened up to a criticism of translation that takes into account the liminality... more
This paper aims at rethinking the meaning of a criticism based on the conditionality of the translational relation and at pointing out the different horizons opened up to a criticism of translation that takes into account the liminality and the unconditionality of relational poiesis.
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In the present paper, I would like to discuss the ethical-dialogical concept that underlies the relationship between the practice and the space of literary translation criticism, in the sense of an ethical space, which can only be created... more
In the present paper, I would like to discuss the ethical-dialogical concept that underlies the relationship between the practice and the space of literary translation criticism, in the sense of an ethical space, which can only be created on the basis of a dialogical practice. Assuming an ethical perspective of literary translation criticism, I initially point out two premises of a critical practice based on this ethical-dialogical concept. These premises will establish the ethical-dialogical bias upon which I will then proceed a brief review of manifestations of the literary translation criticism in Brazil.
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A Revista {voz da literatura} entrevista MAURICIO MENDONÇA CARDOZO, tradutor, escritor e professor da Universidade Federal do Paraná na área de Tradução. A conversa aborda, principalmente, o processo de tradução do livro De minha vida:... more
A Revista {voz da literatura} entrevista MAURICIO MENDONÇA CARDOZO, tradutor, escritor e professor da Universidade Federal do Paraná na área de Tradução. A conversa aborda, principalmente, o processo de tradução do livro De minha vida: poesia e verdade, a autobiografia de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , lançada em 2017 pela editora Unesp.
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Número temático da Tradução em Revista (nr. 30) em homenagem a Antoine Berman, organizado por Simone Petry e Mauricio Cardozo, com a participação de pesquisadores do Brasil e da França