The unpublished manuscript of Le Petit Prince: A founding text of literature translated into Galician

Abstract

This paper addresses the first translation into Galician of Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupéry (O Principiño, 1972). The novelty of our study is derived from having handled the manuscript version of the translation. In this paper, we provide a documentary analysis on the reasons that led to translate this work, but also on the translator beha­vior, the strategy and the procedures used in the transfer. We start from the assumption that the translator has to intervene to a greater extent in children’s texts than in a text for adults and we want to confirm if such intervention has occurred in accordance with translation standards of the time.