Traducibilità e intraducibilità. Sándor Márai e la traduzione letteraria

In this paper I analyze the autobiographical writings of Sándor Márai in order to present his thoughts on literary translation. Mainly in his diary, Márai deals with this topic from different perspectives. He is interested in translation as a literary translator during his youth and later, as a translator of himself, during an interesting case of self-translation with the collaboration of his adopted son. He is concerned about translation also as an author whose works should be translated. In addition, he analyzes translated literature during his personal readings about which he continuously informs the readers. Usually he prefers bilingual editions or simply compares the original texts to the transla ted versions. He often expresses his conviction about untranslatability and, among others, he deals with the concept of translatability in relation to the Hungarian language, to the exile and to the position of Hungarian literature in the global literary canon.