Round-Table T. S. Eliot in Translations - Translating "The Waste Land"
Channel: BULAC - Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations
Date: 2022-10-14

International conference & round table, Paris, October 13-14th, 2022

Part I - Approaches and Strategies

[0:06:20] Why re-translate The Waste Land ?
[0:20:22] To use (or not to use) criticism and earlier translations
[0:30:20] What is in a title ?
[0:42:00] Forms and rythms: dealing with the ghostly iambic pentameter
[0:51:50] Choices and trade-offs

Part II - Master Class

[1:00:52] Carmen Gallo (Italy) - The incipit and impersonal gerunds
[1:06:20] Norbert Hummelt (Germany) - The Fire Sermon : Deviations and Transgressions
[1:14:52] Andreu Jaume (Spain) - A Game of Chess : Sexing ironies
[1:23:00] Benoit Tadié (France) - A Game of Chess : Saving ambiguities

[1:35:00] Q&A with public
[1:36:51] Translating Eliot from a female perspective

Part III - Telling « What the Thunder Said » in Tongues

[1:52:21] Starring T.S. Eliot (English)
Carmen Gallo (Italian) Andreu Jaume (Spanish) Norbert Hummelt (German) Ruth Clemens (Dutch) Cesar J. Sanchez (Peruvian) Dean Slavic (Croatian) Magda Heydel (Polish) Benoit Tadié (French)