ʽIMAGINARY TRANSLATIONʼ AS INTERTEXTUALITY, IN TWO HYPOSTASES
ʽIMAGINARY TRANSLATIONʼ AS INTERTEXTUALITY, IN TWO HYPOSTASES

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we regard the concept of imaginary translation as being linked to intertextuality. To the extent an imaginary translation does establish programmatic intentions of communication with another text or with another literary model, it could be framed as such, it could pertain to intertextuality. One of the hypostases belogs to the writer who coined for the first time in Romanian literature the concept of imaginary translation, Vasile Voiculescu. The second hypostasis of ʽimaginary translationʼ is illustrated by another poet, Marin Sorescu, who reconsiders intertextuality. His approach to ʽimaginary translationʼ is a parodical one, as far as the form is concerned, in fact using the record of a double parody: he deconstructs not only the model of these texts, but also their ʽimaginary translationʼ.

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