"Il giro di boa" e "Le tour de la bouée": due testi a confronto. Analisi della traduzione francese di Serge Quadruppani

This work is aimed at pointing out some of the translation strategies used in the French version of Camilleri's novel "Il giro di boa", translated by Serge Quadruppani. I've carried out an analysis focused on Camilleri's particular language, which is a mixture of Sicilian dialect, neologisms and Italian. The first chapter introduces the writer's life and works and underlines his strong link with Sicily, his homeland. In the second chapter I've made a selection of some interesting extracts from "Il giro di boa" and the French "Le tour de la bouée", in order to enlighten the difficulties and the translation strategies adopted by Quadruppani. These excerpts have been chosen to exemplify the main cultural and linguistic difficulties which are present in the text. Finally, in the third chapter Quadruppani's strategies are examined on the basis of the most relevant contemporary studies in the field of translation.