Il traduttore e il suo lettore: alcune riflessioni sul rapporto tra contrainte e censura

Bibbò discusses the effect of 'regulative' or 'structural' censorship on translation. Starting from the concept of 'contrainte' by the French movement of Oulipo, the author discusses about self-censorship as a means for the translator to either make the translated text acceptable to the receiving culture, or to react against censorship by eroding the system from the inside by choosing a dominant translating strategy. This dominant strategy also characterises the translation as a unique work of art where the reader is actively involved as creator of meaning beyond the translator him/herself.