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Translation, Editing/proofreading, Transcription
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Specializes in:
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Journalism
Linguistics
Poetry & Literature
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Sample translations submitted: 1
Italian to English: Traduzione saggistica
Source text - Italian ‘Ne consegue alla cultura di quel momento una struttura antinomica: da un lato la forza della stabilità e della convenzione letteraria, cioè la forza d’inerzia del sistema produce nella letteratura degli anni Sessanta un affollamento rovinoso di romanzi di consumo, tanto che si è parlato di boom dell’industria editoriale.
Gli autori di questi romanzi, dalle copertine mercenarie, essendo inclini a favorire le attese del pubblico, sfornavano prodotti facilmente decodificabili, dove era il lettore medio, per dirla con Estival, che si metteva a scrivere dentro l’autore.
'Questa serie di testi subiva le norme del sistema socio-letterario tendente di per sé a perpetuarsi tale e quale.’
Maria Corti
Translation - English 'There follows in the culture of that time a conflicting structure: on the one hand the force of stability and of literary convention, in other words the force of inertia of the system, produces a harmful proliferation of consumer novels in the literature of the nineteen sixties, so much so that a boom in the publishing sector was talked about at length.
'The authors of these novels, with their commercialised covers, being inclined to pander to the expectations of the public, churned out products that were easily decipherable, and in which the average reader, to join in Estival’s opinion, would begin to write ‘inside’ the author.
'This succession of books submitted itself to the norms of the socio-literary system, which has the intrinsic tendency to keep things just as they are.'
Maria Corti
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Years of experience: 21. Registered at ProZ.com: Oct 2007.
My name is Emilia Robinson and I am available for translations into English from either French or Italian.
I achieved a First Class joint degree (the equivalent of 'summa cum laude') in the languages & literatures of the French & Italian at Christ Church College, University of Oxford.
I have 4 years experience of translating into and out of both languages for all sorts of literary and non-literary academic text, including journalism, reviews, criticism, and historical writings. Translating has always been my strong point since I have a keen grammatical knowledge and an ability to use words efficiently.
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