James Joyce in Translation: Colloquialisms, Vulgarisms and Idiomatic and Cultural Expressions in the Spanish and Galician versions of ‘Ulysses’

Abstract

[Abstract] James Joyce’s Ulysses narrates the story about a day in the life of the two main characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Despite being a complex reading, this novel was translated into a lot of languages. This dissertation will deal about the act of translating, the difficulties that appear during that process and finally there will be a study of the colloquialisms, vulgarisms and idiomatic and cultural expressions in the Spanish and Galician versions of Ulysses. I will especially focus on the Galician translation, which is the most recent one. To be more specific this dissertation will focus on episode 18 of Ulysses, also known as Penelope.