Las traducciones de la Antología de la literatura fantástica de Borges, Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo

Abstract

Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo’s Antología de la literatura fantástica [Anthology of Fantasy Literature] is an anthology that is unusual in more ways than one. In addition to its direct impact on several major Hispanic-American writers, and to its contribution to affirming a literary movement, it has also been translated both into English and Italian. Each translation is different. The English translation takes great liberties in relation to the Argentine original; the title has been changed, Bioy’s prefaces have been replaced, and texts that conform to the tradition of the genre in English have been added even though they go against the poetics of the anthologisers. In contrast, the Italian translation is rigorous, and is even more philologically exacting than the original edition. The book is treated with the due care and respect that a classic encompassing the writers of a new poetic deserves, and this is also reflected in the preface written by Borges and Bioy Casares specially for the Italian edition.