Per una mappa dell’autotraduzione letteraria endolinguistica: dal dialetto all’italiano

Abstract

This paper will examine some aspects of the intralingual self-translation in Italy, in the works of Luigi Pirandello and Franco Loi. Pirandello’s works include some of 40 plays, written in Sicilian dialect. Some of them, like Liolà, were written first in dialect (“girgentano”) and then translated into Italian by Pirandello himself: the Italian translation from the first version of Liolà (1916) is a complete recreation of the play. Franco Loi’s work, L’angel, written in dialect of Mailand, has been published with a self-translation (Milano 1994). On the basis of this brief comparison, the passage from the dialect in the Italian version, is interesting to analyze some linguistic structures of the self-translation.