REFLECTIONS ON TRANSLATION: THE CASE OF MALAGASY TALES

Comparative literature

This work is part of a quest for the image of the Other and the differents aspects of otherness in Malagasy tales. The studies carried out have highlighted a strong presence of the Other in the meshes of the tales. Our hypothesis holds that this presence of the Other is also manifested in the translated tales. The study of a tsimihety tale, written and translated by Rabearison, and a ntandroy tale, written and translated by Reverend Father, Professor Benolo François, confirmed our hypothesis. In fact, the translator leaves his imprint in the tale that he translates that is now carrying his own representations vis-à-vis the Other. This gap between the original and the translation becomes a "significant infidelity" that makes it reach the rank of literary creation. The results we present in this paper are a starting point for the studies to be undertaken in the vast work of literary translation. They also include malagasy literature in the “world literature”.

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