(Les re-traducteurs sont souvent plus verbeux que les traducteurs)
Is this true ???
Is a 2nd translation (of the same book, novel) usually longer than the 1st ???
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.................. In this journal, Antoine Berman and Paul Bensimon proposed a concept that was subsequently redefined in 2002 by Andrew Chesterman as the Retranslation Hypothesis (RH).
According to this hypothesis, the first translation of a literary text is notably more oriented towards the target language (domestication) whereas subsequent retranslations would tend to be nearer to the source text and language (foreignization).