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The Translation of Emotive Expressions of Victor Hugo’s
Poems Between English and Arabic

Mai Malkawi

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the translation of emotive expressions in two poems of the French novelist and poet Victor Hugo. The study will examine the rendition of the French emotive expressions found in these two poems into Arabic and English as well trying to investigate the ability of both languages (Arabic and English) to express the same emotional effect of the French texts. This paper presents a comparative study for the ability of Arabic and English to translate such expressions from French.

Keywords: Emotiveness, Victor Hugo, Poems, Connotation, Denotation, Literary Translation, English-Arabic.

About Victor Hugo

As a part of the romantic period that was dominant in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, Victor-Marie Hugo was born on February 26, 1802, at Besançon, in eastern France as the youngest son of Joseph Léopold Hugo who was an officer in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army and Sophie Trébuchet. Through a period of about sixty years, he was a prolific poet, novelist, playwright, and dramatist. Hugo is considered one of the best- and well-known French writers all over the world. His most renowned works were his two novels Les Misérables (The Miserables) and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). In addition to his novels, he was also known for his famous poetry collections Les contemplations (The contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The legend of the ages).

Hugo lived a very unstable life due to his father’s job as a general in the army with his tasks forcing him to go from one place to another. This affected Hugo’s education and poetic skills as Hudson said: “His education was thus very irregular, and even at the Pension Cordier, to which he was presently sent, he devoted himself with more ardour to poetry than to his prescribed studies.” (Hudson 1919:207).

Many events had remarkable consequences on him during his life both personally and emotionally. One of them is his exile to Belgium then to Channel Islands as a result of Napoléon Bonaparte taking authority in France. Hugo was a part in the opposition to Napoléon’s power which faced three consequences, death, imprisonment, or exile. “According to the new government’s own statistics, 380 people (many of them uninvolved civilians) were killed; 26,642 were imprisoned, and 9,769 of those were deported to the notorious penal colonies in Algeria and French Guiana”. (Hugo and Blackmore 2004: xi). It is worth mentioning that Hugo returned back to Paris after the abduction of Napoléon the emperor then.

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Mai Malkawi
Master of English Language
Full-time Lecturer, Language Center
The Hashemite University, Zarqa-Jordan
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8730-3068
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