ELKOST International literary agency - Master-class by Elena Kostioukovich in Ca' Foscari University

On Оctober 13-17, Elena Kostioukovich will be conducting a master-class "Tools used for literary translation in XXI century" at the Ca' Foscari University (Venice, Italy).

See http://www.unive.it for details.

Titolo: Strumenti del traduttore letterario nel XXI secolo.

Docente: prof. Elena Kostioukovitch

Date: 13-17 ottobre 2014, incontri quotidiani di 3 ore ciascuno

Temi del seminario:

Giorno 1) Capire le regole dell'editoria: concetti base della collaborazione tra il traduttore e il Publisher.

Giorno 2) Sapere pescare nell'internet: vocabolari, enciclopedie, nomenclatori, traduttori automatici, database, dizionari delle rime e vari espedienti magici che sono in base ad ogni gran successo.

Giorno 3) Consultare libri, film e documenti. Contestualizzare in ogni modo ogni cosa. Un viaggio vero o immaginario che ci tocca compiere per fare bene ogni traduzione e/o traduzioncina.

Giorno 4) Tecniche specifiche, precisione, algoritmi. Traduzione poetica, traduzione di narrativa corta, traduzione di narrativa lunga, traduzione di opere di saggistica.

Giorno 5) Intuito, memoria, gusto, stile. Diventare creativi rimanendo disciplinati. Dieci leggi per evitare la noia e la disperazione.

LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Rights sold: Russia – Culturnaya Revolutzia, AST

A biopic novel dedicated to the famous Russian playwright Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903). A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. Based on his personal experiences, Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote a trilogy of satirical plays about the prevalence of bribery and other corrupt practices in the Russian judicial system of the time.

Only a Miracle Could Save Us: Life and Survival under Stalin's Terror, by Irina Sherbakova (NF)

Rights sold: Germany - CAMPUS

For many years, we knew next to nothing about the private lives of ordinary Soviet citizens during Stalin’s reign. Until very recently, the social history of the Soviet Union written by Soviet and Western historians alike was limited entirely to the public sphere – politics and ideology, and the collective experience of the ‘Soviet masses’. The individual (insofar as he or she appeared at all) featured mainly as a letter-writer to the Soviet authorities (that is, as a public actor rather than a private person or member of a family).

It was only from the end of the 1980s that the practice of oral history – politically impossible in the earlier Soviet period – began to develop in Russia. Public organizations like Memorial, established in the late 1980s to represent the victims of repression and record their history, took the lead, collecting testimonies from survivors...

Master-class by Elena Kostioukovich in Ca' Foscari University

Featured titles

LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)

Only a Miracle Could Save Us: Life and Survival under Stalin's Terror, by Irina Sherbakova (NF)