Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Valete de Espadas" in Portuguese language version.
Gerardo Mello Mourão, instead of Guimarães Rosa, may well have been his original guide and master. This author and translator, in these years integralista, was also accused of being a Nazi spy and – together with Meyer-Clason – a prisoner on Ilha Grande. There Mello Mourão wrote parts of O valete de espadas, only published in 1960, becoming the first Brazilian novel Meyer-Clason translated into German (Pikbube, 1963). This fell into oblivion. In the meantime, Grande Sertão – Veredas (1964) established his fame as a translator of Brazilian Literature. Our study is aimed at reframing not only Meyer-Clason’s dominant foundational narrative as a literary translator but also his translating method and practice without going into a complete translation analysis of Pikbube.
