(Un)Ttranslatableness of literary texts or how to translate the untranslatable

The proposed study is aimed at analyzing the difficulties of translating literary texts from Italian into Romanian in a historical-linguistic and philological-literary perspective, the investigation focusing mainly on the analysis of lexical and stylistic data found in the target texts, but also on the testimonies of the translators themselves. Since the linguistic and life biographies of Italian authors are characterized by a strong connection between culturemes, often expressed through images attributable to their culture, history and dialect specific to each Italian region in part, their texts are loaded with unique linguistic and stylistic expressions, realized in particular at the lexical, syntactic and semantic level that transmit the personal sensitivity of the author. The transformations thus obtained produce hybrid models of thought and identity that are difficult to translate into another foreign language. The comparison with a further linguistic and cultural dimension presupposes the translator’s skills and competences that go beyond the requirement to be bilingual and bicultural. From this perspective, we intend to analyse the translation strategies used in the transposition of some texts from Italian to Romanian in order to examine whether and how the linguistic-stylistic peculiarities representing the Italian cultural and dialectal identity of these authors have been preserved.