INTERVIEW/ DIALOG WITH RODICA GABRIELA CHIRA, TRANSLATOR OF THE BILINGUAL VOLUME DESPRE OAMENI ȘI COLIVII/ DES HOMMES ET DES CAGES

The interview with Rodica Gabriela Chira, Associate Professor at 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, now retreated, translator of the bilingual volume Despre Oameni și Colivii/ Des Hommes et des Cages (Of men and cages, 2020) inscribes itself into a larger doctoral research focused on a psyco- and sociolinguistic perspective of the Covid-19 pandemic. The questions addressed by the interviewer refer to the historic of the volume, the working process, the quality of translator and traductologist, the steps followed in the elaboration of the volume, with the attention concentrated on answers capable of generating new questions. We thus discover that, through her professional activity, Rodica Gabriela Chira situates herself somewhere at the border between translator and traductologist, although this last quality is not justified by specialized books in the field of traductology. Stress is also put on the orientation of the poems included in the volume from a psycho- and sociolinguistic perspective: they belong to a culture of the present, dependent on circumstances, on the commonplace called the Covid-19 pandemic. The online interview was achieved on January 7, 2024, between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m.