Riservare uno sguardo

[aramesh]

Buonasera,

vorrei tradurre in inglese questa frase: "Riserva ad ognuno dei personaggi uno sguardo che scandaglia i loro sentimenti più profondi".
Si riferisce ad un autore che dà uguale dignità a tutti i suoi personaggi, eroi e antieroi.

Quel "riserva", ovviamente, mi ha messo in crisi.

"He has for each of them a look that plumbs their deepest feelings".
Potrei usare "to address" in qualche modo?

Grazie per l'aiuto!

Aramesh

 

[theartichoke]

Hi aramesh,

"Uno sguardo" strikes me as being even more problematic here than "riserva"; I don't think "a look" is going to work. My feeling is that structure of the sentence may have to be changed around a bit, and so it would help to know what the sentence before and the sentence after it are (in Italian). It'll make it easier to find a natural-sounding translation.

 

[aramesh]

Thanks, @theartichoke!

The sentence before is the list of types of characters, such as prostitutes, assassins, children, etc. In each short-story the author focuses on one of this typology of characters, never judging but rather showing pietas.

Here "look" means to me "care, attention".

 

[rrose17]

I was thinking of the word "bestow" as in
He is able to plumb the depths of each character's feelings, bestowing his gaze on every one of them.

 

[aramesh]

Wow! That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks, @rrose17! Both "to bestow" and "gaze" fit properly!

Could "to bestow" also work with "a place in history" as "riservare uno sguardo... e un posto nella storia (altrimenti negato dalle cronache giornalistiche)"... Otherwise I'd add a "to give them a place in history...".

Thanks again!

 

[rrose17]

Could "to bestow" also work with "a place in history" as "riservare uno sguardo... e un posto nella storia (altrimenti negato dalle cronache giornalistiche)"... Otherwise I'd add a "to give them a place in history...".

Bestow elevates the author's stature perhaps, makes them sound a bit regal and beneficent, but an author can be said to bestow certain characteristics upon their creations. It doesn't sound odd.

 

[aramesh]

Many thanks, @rrose17 !

 

[metazoan]

He carefully examines the deepest feelings of each character.