Playing on Words: Challenges in Translating Umberto Eco’s Numero zero

The translation of Umberto Eco’s seventh and final novel involved rather different challenges to those I had previously encountered. I would like to look at four particular problems: firstly, rewriting, where certain passages cannot be translated literally; secondly, explaining, where references wil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Dixon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de liège 2016-12-01
Series:Signata
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/signata/1245