Frases célebres do Fausto: um desafio para a tradução

Abstract

The topic of this paper is to analyse the relation between dicta and translation. I will therefore discuss the origin and the main aspect s of the German expression “geflügelte Worte”. Afterwards I will present Portuguese translations of  some quotations of Goethe’s Faust in order to illustrate their structural and semantic comp lexity and therefore the special challenge for translation. At the end I will show that those quotations are a frequent rhetorical means of newspapers and advertising and briefly comment possibilities of translation.