Een globaal icoon in een minderheidstaal
Résumé
This article examines the Basque translations of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis.
A total of two translations are to be scrutinised. First of all, a partial
translation from the 1960s, that was made by a somewhat atypical duo of
translators – a Dutch upcoming specialist in Basque Studies and a teen-age
Basque girl – and published in one of the first fully Basque-language literary
journals. Secondly, a full translation from 2004, with reissues in 2014 and
2017. The article looks at translations from a sociological-receptive point
of view intending to reconstruct goals, working methods and profiles of
the translators, and investigates the reception of both works in peritexts,
mainly reviews in the press. To this end, I have used, among others, archival
material, interviews with two of the three translators (those who are still
alive), and a contextual analysis of developments in the Basque literary
field in recent decades. All this offers an opportunity to see how one of the
modern Dutch-language classics circulates in the only partly autonomous
literary field of a minority language. The question should be asked whether
Anne Frank has been translated as a Dutch or a global icon. In the end, it is
the international success of the book that seems to have prevailed rather
than the desire to open up Dutch culture to Basque readers.
Domaines
Littératures
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