Original scientific paper
Futurism in the Mirror of Croatian Translation: Marinetti’s Unpublished Manifesto
Sandra Milanko
; European Parliament
Abstract
Although Croatian literary critics have been interested
in Futurism since its very beginning, the same
cannot be said when it comes to the translations of
Futurist works. This is even more surprising if we
consider that a good part of the first issue of the unpublished
Futurist journal Zvrk (‘spinning top’) was
dedicated to the translation of the writings of some
well-known Futurists, including Marinetti himself.
The article, in addition to providing a panoramic
view of the major critical works on Futurism and
their reception in Croatia, highlights the importance
of applying translation analysis in the study of Croatian
and Italian literary and cultural bonds, such as
in the case of Marinetti’s programmatic writing Il futurism,
translated into Croatian as Futurizam by the
founder of Zvrk, Joso Matošić, and intended for publication
in the journal. The analysis reveals that the
writing cannot be considered the original manifesto
written by Marinetti for this occasion, but a version
of two of his previously published articles known to
and taken by Matošić as a prototext together with the
version that the founder of the Futurist movement
sent to Zvrk.
Keywords
Futurism, Marinetti, Zvrk, manifesto, translation studies
Hrčak ID:
306392
URI
Publication date:
24.7.2023.
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