Hermann Broch. Le riflessioni sul tradurre e il rapporto con James Joyce

The aim of this contribution is, first and foremost, to give an account of Hermann Broch's reflections on translation, expressed in his 1946 theoretical essay entitled Einige Bemerkungen zur Philosophie und Technik des Übersetzens (Some Remarks on the Philosophy and Technique of Translation). Fundamental here is the relationship between author and translator, as it took shape in the intense work on the English translation, but also on the French translation, of his work Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil). A constant reference to James Joyce's Ulysses, with which Broch dealt extensively in his correspondence, is interwoven with the considerations set out in this essay.