“La salamandra”: traduir la violència. Una proposta italiana

This article contains an original translation into Italian of the well-known short story «La salamandra» by Mercè Rodoreda. The translation, by collective authorship, is preceded by a brief introductory study («“The salamander”: translating violence») organized in three parts. The first is a state of the art of the reception of Rodoreda in Italy through the main publishing operations and translations —with a mention of the short stories and of what remains, perhaps, to be done. The second is devoted to the operation of translating a text about sexual violence, while proposing the category of trauma as a reading key. In the third part (a sort of synthesis), reception, re-reading and translation are put together as three important fronts, although restricted to a small case study, which contribute to describe what we call «the new Rodoreda wave». Finally, there is an appendix in the form of a bibliographic list with all the Italian translations of Mercè Rodoreda’s work.