Translatology in education. Paul Claudel’s “L’esprit et l’eau” translation confrontation: Rosario Castellanos and Miguel Ángel Flores

Abstract

The recognition of translatology as a science since the 1970s has contributed to the creation of spaces for research in this field in educational institutions and to the professionalization of the practice of translation. The purpose of this article is to analyze, in the light of the methodology proposed by Antoine Berman, the translations by Rosario Castellanos and Miguel Ángel Flores of Paul Claudel’s poem “L’esprit et l’eau” contained in the work Cinq grandes odes: suivies d’un processionnal pour saluer le siècle nouveau (1936). The confrontation presents two ways of approaching poetic translation. The analysis is based on three dimensions: position, project and horizon of the translator. Such confrontation aims to extract the solutions provided by each of the translators, the first one without training in translation studies, the second one with extensive knowledge of translation studies..