Quais são algumas maneiras eficazes de traduzir obras literárias com precisão?

One thing I've found helpful is to ask the native speaker for help if the article is related to something complicated, such as translating for academic audiences. I usually seek help from the academic source too.

To accurately translate literary works, deep understanding of both the source and target languages and cultures is crucial, along with preserving the author's style, literary devices, and cultural context. This means capturing the tone, mood, and style of the original work while ensuring it resonates with the target audience.

Beyond just reading the text, one must understand the cultural significance of the text within the context it was written in that exact moment of time from the perspective of the intended audience of the writer, removing the translator's current cultural perspectives, biases and lenses. This is an arduous task as one must peel away their own self identity and attempt to wear that of the author and embody them in their culture and life. While doing this, they must also seek to fully understand who the author was speaking to and what was being conveyed. In the case of a court transcript this is simple as the truth is implied and the events are more present. In historical literary fiction this is quite the challenge.

Translation styles are like the movie adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, we decide where to take them but the story is always the same. We must first see if there are other translations of the text and review those for their faithfulness and ask if there is a need for a more literal translation, and if so, are we able to do so? If there is at least one translation that is widely considered to be literal and we are satisfied with that result, then we may consider using our translation as the opportunity to educate our audience on the source language's culture through domestication or foreignization.

Consider the writers and the sources of your sources and seek information closest to the source language if possible. For example, when translating Japanese into English and seeking dictionaries, look for those written by Japanese people, get instruction by those who were at least taught in Japan and if possible, go to Japan for a part of your instruction to further deepen your cultural knowledge of the source language. This builds understandings of unwritten nuances of culture that won't be explicitly written in a book but will be implied throughout the source text which you'll be able to now translate effectively.