Hăisan D. (2022). A study of Retranslation and Oscar Wilde’s Tales in Romanian. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 275 p.

This review examines Daniela Hăisan’s study of Oscar Wilde’s tales in Romanian translation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). Analyzing twelve translations from 1911 to 2020, the book combines diachronic and synchronic approaches to challenge the retranslation hypothesis and illuminate translation practices in peripheral cultures. Through a flexible, text-driven methodology, Hăisan develops a template for assessing children’s literature translations while exploring the relationship between source texts and their multiple translations. This work provides a valuable methodological framework for understanding the dynamics of retranslation in peripheral cultural contexts.