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insisted on claiming authorial status for poetic translations that are
not free imitations adaptations, but philologically accurate poetic
representations. The autonomy of the translated poem thus doesn’t
become unmoored from its source text, but nevertheless retains
artistic independence. This occurs due to Buffoni’s intense poietic
dialogue with the original author and text, where translation is not
a mere esperimento formale, but “an existential experience intended
to relive the creative act that inspired the original.”
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