Italian term
Italy
Graduated from Westminster University
Native in: Italian
Works in: Italian to English, English to Italian, English, and 1 more.
funambolismi citazionisti
Dall’altra la presenza dei tronchi, la loro disposizione, il quasi recinto rituale che costruivano, pensandoci ora, erano l’altro tuo aspetto, quello che affondava le radici (sempre d’analisi e di nostra formazione collettiva) nel rito sciamanico (e di fatto quel termine quante volte ricorreva e affascinava, bisogna ammetterlo, magari preferendolo a certi funambolismi citazionisti)
| 4 | citationist acrobatics |
Giles Watson
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| 4 | tightrope walking citationists |
James (Jim) Davis
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Proposed translations
citationist acrobatics
The Italian also seems to be a little obscure: who or what is the subject of "preferendolo" (grammatically, it should be "termine", which doesn't make much sense)? "Preferito" or "in preferenza a" is probably what the author meant but you might want to check with him/her if he or she is available.
FWIW
Giles
Seychelles
25 years experience constantly improving
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Italian to English
tightrope walking citationists
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=SollosyEsterhazy
"Although he protests, Péter Esterházy is a postmodern author par excellence, and as a postmodern author, he has been indulging in metanarrative inasmuch as the text is a reflection on itself, on the story being told, on the author reflecting on the authorial voice reflecting on what it is narrating, and so on.He's been engaging in "citationism," too, incorporating bits and pieces from outside sources, from the Bible through the postmodern American writer Donald Barthelme, thereby creating a metatext. As he once said (Once? Probably dozens of times!), all literature is a dialogue between literary texts. But when he began his impish games with his translators, publicly challenging them in his books (and speeches and articles) to translate "the untranslatable," when he began indulging himself in intertextual author-to-translator games, he willy-nilly created a brand of intertextual irony. He induced re
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