TRIGGER: Tradução Comentada de GATILHO, de Marcelo Dolabela, para a Língua Inglesa

Abstract

This final term paper presents a translation to the English language of the book GATILHO, a book of haikus by the Brazilian poet Marcelo Dolabela, published in 1982. As a basis for these translations, a research on the works of Dolabela is presented, establishing the artist as a marginal poet in the experimental poetry scene. Also presented is an analysis of the trajectory of haiku, since its inception in Japan, its country of origin, up to its arrival and spread across Brazil, based for the most part on the biography of Matsuo Basho, written by Paulo Leminski (1983), and the notes of Paulo Franchetti (1994) on the poetic genre. Subsequently, I perform an analysis of my translation process for all 25 haiku that compose GATILHO, detailing the decisions, difficulties, and solutions I found by using creative translation, or transcreation, as conceptualized by Haroldo de Campos (1992). As such, this work of poetic translations aims to reach a main goal: reach a new public that, due to the language barrier, might not have had access to Marcelo Dolabela's GATILHO.