O papel da máquina editorial na publicação de Nove novena, de Osman Lins, na França e na Alemanha

Abstract

The publishing market belongs to a system which involves
power mechanisms. Control factor operating outside the literary system
proper, it interferes in the decision to publish a translation. Using the
information contained in the correspondence between Osman Lins and
the French and German translators, we show how the publishing houses
in France and in Germany got to know Nove, novena, which difficulties
the publication of the book’s translation met with, which strategies the
translator, the literary agent and the Brazilian writer himself used to
convince the German publishers to have it printed and which reasons
they gave not to publish it.