SELF-TRANSLATION OR REWRITING A TEXT – VASSILIS ALEXANKIS NOVEL I MITRIKI GLOSSA

THE AIM OF THIS PAPE R IS TO ANALYSE THE (SELF-)TRANSLATION OF THE NOVEL I MITRIKI GLOSSA INTO FRENCH (LA LANGUE MATERNELLE ), WRITTEN AND TRANSL ATED BY VASSILIS ALE XAKIS, A FRENCH WRITER OF GRE EK ORIGIN. ALEXAKIS WROTE HIS NOVEL IN G REEK, THEN HE TRANSLAT ED HIMSELF INTO FRENCH. ALTHOUGH WE CAN CON SIDER THE ORIGINAL A ND THE TRANSLATION O NE AND THE SAME NOVEL, THE COMPARISON LED T O THE IDENTIFICATION OF SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO VARI ANTS. THE AUTHOR/TRA NSLATOR REWROTE SOME PARTS OF THE BOOK IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM M ORE COMPREHENSIBLE T O THE FRENCH READER. MORE PRECISELY, ALEXAKIS TRANSLATED SOME GREEK WORDS AND PHRASES AND ADDED E XPLANATIONS TO DIFFERENT TERMS (E.G. KATHAREVOUSA) IN THE TEXT. HE AVOIDED USING FOOTNOTES AND, AS HE WAS BOTH THE TRANSLATOR AND THE AUTHOR OF THE TEXT, HE COULD MAKE THE BEST CHOICES IN TRANSLATING THE NOVE L. THE CONCLUSION OF THIS STUDY SHOWS TH AT, WHEN POSSIBLE, S ELF- TRANSLATION COULD BE THE BEST WAY TO REN DER THE MESSAGE, FEE LINGS, ATTITUDES AND CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF A PARTICULAR LITERARY WORK.

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