Poesia originale e poesia in traduzione: quale rapporto?

Abstract

In this article – which partially refers to the author’s own experience as a translator – some examples of the dynamics that arise when a poet translates poetry are given; i.e. what relationship there is between writing as such and writing as a result of a translation. The examples concern: the use of rhymes in the poetry of Giovanni Giudici and in his Italian translation of Aleksandr Puškin’s Evgenij Onegin; the amount of rhetorical instrumentation used by Angelo Maria Ripellino when translating Vladimir Majakovskij’s Lenin; the way Mr. Cogito (a character created by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert) and the formal traditionalism of 20^th century Russian poetry heavily influenced the poetry of the author of the article.