Translation of the Charles Bukowski's short stories "Cacoethes scribendi" and "The Reason Behind Reason"
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Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero, translationAbstract
In this paper we present two translation’s proposals to Portuguese of the short stories Cacoethes Scribendi and The Reason Behind Reason, from the book Absence of the Hero written by Charles Bukowski. In first place, we present Charles Bukowski as a poet and writer and his literary work published in Brazil. After that, some selected aspects about the translation process of the texts from Bukowski and a brief analysis from the two short stories translated are discussed. Bukowski provided autobiographical data for his productions, therefore by analyzing the two short stories from the book Absence of the Hero we also intended to trace the links between the character’s representation and the personality of the author. There are many elements of
his own life disguised by fiction content that aims at creating a picaresque character to his novels. Besides discussing crucial aspects regarding the author and the
autobiographical content of his writings, we explain the translation process of the two short stories that are still not published in Portuguese.
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