The Challenges of Translating the Spanish Poem “Patmos” by Andrés Sánchez Robayna into French

Abstract

If translatology is a theory, it is also a praxis, and this article aims to weave together a reflection on the various issues involved in the translation from Spanish into French of a long poem such as “Patmos” by Andrés Sánchez Robayna (La sombra y la apariencia, 2010). The strong presence of sound and metric work in this poem obliges the translator to carry out a series of compensations and recreations in French, without forgetting the important weight of metaphysics and intertextuality in this poem, both of which question the practice of translation.