Gregory Rabassa’s Latin American Literature

A Translator’s Visible Legacy

María Constanza Guzmán 2010 

E-Book: 193 English Pages

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

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This book takes the case of Gregory Rabassa, translator into English of such canonical novels as García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad and Cortázar’s Rayuela. In the chapters, the author historicizes the translator’s practice by investigating Rabassa’s ideas about translation and his own practice, the relationship between Rabassa and “his” authors, and the circulation and reception of Rabassa’s translations, especially of the works of the so-called Latin American Boom. By critically engaging Rabassa as a translating subject, this book affirms the translator’s active role in shaping literary traditions and in producing texts and knowledge. Rabassa emerges as an active subject in the inter-American literary exchange, an agent bound to history and to the forces involved in the production of culture.

Review

Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude achieved the status of a classic in the English-reading world because of Rabassa’s translation of it from the Spanish. As one of the preeminent translators of contemporary Spanish- and Portuguese-language literatures, Rabassa has introduced Anglophone readers to the works of numerous Latin American and Luso-Brazilian novelists, so this examination of his ideas and views merits serious attention…One is rewarded with fascinating perspectives on Rabassa’s relationships with his authors, especially Julio Cortázar, author of Hopscotch; the overwhelmingly positive reception of his translations; and his responsibility for knowledge of the Latin American “boom” in the English-speaking world. Also included are an insightful interview with Rabassa and a welcome complete list of Rabassa’s translations, which leaves one in awe of the breadth of his accomplishments. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

—(CHOICE 2011-09-02)

About the Author

María Constanza Guzmán is associate professor at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she is appointed to the School of Translation, the Department of Hispanic Studies, and the Graduate Program in Humanities.