Abstract
This essay focuses on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s broadest lyrical cycle following the publication in 2020 of its first complete translation into Portuguese, signed by Daniel Martineschen: Divã ocidento-oriental (Estação Liberdade). The poems “Blessed longing” (in “Book of the Singer”), also translated by Manuel Bandeira, and “Gingo biloba” (in “Book of Zuleica”), occupy a central position in the theoretical considerations about the procedures used by the translator. In this context, this essay also explores the tripartite typology of translation that Goethe outlined in the prose text (“Notes and essays for a better understanding of the Divan”), appended to the 12 books of poems. Finally, this essay relates the genesis of the Divan to the Goethian conception of World Literature (Weltliteratur), into which “Brazilian” songs in Tupi language were also included.
Key Words
Goethe; West-eastern Divan; Hafez; Translation Theory; World Literature