A comparative Study of Agnes Grey’s Spanish Translations

Abstract

Writers use a certain style to create their literary works and translators should transmit such style to the target audience as faithfully as possible. This article is based on the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë and makes a comparative analysis between the two existing Spanish translations – in 1997 by Menchu Gutiérrez López and in 2000 by Elizabeth Power – focusing on the style used by the English author. Although the examples presented through these pages show the translators’ fidelity to the content of the source text, both translations reflect how the target audience could influence the translation itself. The results show that the source text is translated differently according to the goal of each translation, although the two translations were first published almost at the same time by the publishing houses Alba Editorial and Ediciones Cátedra in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

Keywords

• agnes grey
• literary translation
• fidelity
• anne brontë