Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
mumbling houses
Spanish translation:
casas hechizadas (in this context)
Added to glossary by
Cecilia Gowar
Aug 22, 2010 03:59
14 yrs ago
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English term
mumbling houses
Non-PRO
English to Spanish
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
literature
written by Bhabha, H in "The Location of Culture". I need to know how would it be translated into Spanish without loosing the author's intention.
Proposed translations
(Spanish)
3 +2 | casas hechizadas (in this context) |
Cecilia Gowar
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3 | en casas donde se habla en voz baja |
Adriana de Groote
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Change log
Sep 5, 2010 07:19: Cecilia Gowar Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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casas hechizadas (in this context)
La traducción literal sería "casas que mascullan". Pienso que esta expresión, en castellano, carece de la sutileza y misterio del original en inglés. Dado que en el fragmento se menciona a continuación que el "lenguaje indescifrable" de los muertos, que la palabra "oír" figura dos veces en el párrafo. creo que es una opción válida.
"We know that 124 Bluestone Road is said to be haunted, but ¢haunted¢ is a word much thrown around in literature; one can be said to have ¢haunted eyes "
124 Bluestone Road es la casa de la novela "Beloved", de Toni Morrison:
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/bel/CHR.html
Copio el párrafo al que pertenece la pregunta, gracias a la contribución de Tania:
has been reduced to one high, mean window, as her house of fiction becomes 'the house of darkness, the house of dumbness, the house of suffocation'.16 If you hear it thus at the Palazzo Roccanera in the late 1870s, then a little earlier in 1873 on the outskirts of Cincinatti, in mumbling houses like 124 Bluestone Road, you hear the undecipherable language of the black and angry dead;
"We know that 124 Bluestone Road is said to be haunted, but ¢haunted¢ is a word much thrown around in literature; one can be said to have ¢haunted eyes "
124 Bluestone Road es la casa de la novela "Beloved", de Toni Morrison:
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/bel/CHR.html
Copio el párrafo al que pertenece la pregunta, gracias a la contribución de Tania:
has been reduced to one high, mean window, as her house of fiction becomes 'the house of darkness, the house of dumbness, the house of suffocation'.16 If you hear it thus at the Palazzo Roccanera in the late 1870s, then a little earlier in 1873 on the outskirts of Cincinatti, in mumbling houses like 124 Bluestone Road, you hear the undecipherable language of the black and angry dead;
Peer comment(s):
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nahuelhuapi
: Si, también casas poseídas (por los fantasmas/almas en pena)
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¡Gracias nahuelhuapi! Sí, es otra opción que había pensado...
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agree |
Wendy Petzall
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¡Gracias wmpetzall!
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en casas donde se habla en voz baja
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Resultados de la búsquedaBhabha, Homi - El Lugar de La Cultura - 21:20
... en casas donde se habla en voz baja, como la del 124 de Bluestone Road, oímos el idioma indescifrable de los negros muertos e iracundos; la voz de la ...
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También podría ser:
"En casas que murmuran o balbucean"
Resultados de la búsquedaBhabha, Homi - El Lugar de La Cultura - 21:20
... en casas donde se habla en voz baja, como la del 124 de Bluestone Road, oímos el idioma indescifrable de los negros muertos e iracundos; la voz de la ...
www.scribd.com/doc/.../Bhabha-Homi-El-Lugar-de-La-Cultura - En cachéHas eliminado resultados de esta búsqueda. Ocultarlos
Cargando...
También podría ser:
"En casas que murmuran o balbucean"
Discussion
".... has been reduced to one high, mean window, as her house of fiction becomes 'the house of darkness, the house of dumbness, the house of suffocation'.16 If you hear it thus at the Palazzo Roccanera in the late 1870s, then a little earlier in 1873 on the outskirts of Cincinatti, in mumbling houses like 124 Bluestone Road, you hear the undecipherable language of the black and angry dead; ....". Please remember to provide sufficient context. HTH!