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TSL Issue: 11.1/2021 by Translations of Slavic Literatures
The primary purpose of this publication is to describe the last thirty years, comparing and organ... more The primary purpose of this publication is to describe the last thirty years, comparing and organizing the phenomena in the reception of czech literature for children and young adults in Poland after 1989. The mutual Polish-czech relations and the reconstruction of the Polish publishing system had a significant impact on the nature and intensity of this reception. The relations from the end of World War ii to 1989 were limited by specific political, economic, and cultural conditions and controlled by the state institutions established for that purpose.
The unequal import of (literary) translations of male and female authors from Bosnia, Croatia and... more The unequal import of (literary) translations of male and female authors from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia in German will be critically examined in this article regarding the following three aspects: 1. The gender differences in the quantity of translations; 2. The selection strategies for the translation of female authors, especially in the period from 1992 to 2012 (which mostly covers the period of the yugoslav wars); 3. The role of female actors in the translatory field. The answers to these questions will show whether in this period one could speak of the "gender translation gap".
In the paper we analyze and compare two translations of Prešeren's poem Slovo od mladosti (Farewe... more In the paper we analyze and compare two translations of Prešeren's poem Slovo od mladosti (Farewell to youth) as cultural and literary artifacts. We focus on linguistic and stylistic solutions as well as decisions in the context of cultural transfer. First, we research the translation by František L. Čelakovski (1799-1852), published in 1832 in the newspaper Časopis českého Museum from the period of romanticism, and second, the translation of the same Prešeren's poem by Josef Hiršal (1920-2003), a famous poet of experimental poetry and a well-known Czech translator of his time, published in the book Můj sen šel po hladině (My dream faded on the water surface, 1978). We emphasize on Hiršal's translation from the period of the Czech experimental poetry from the sixtieth and seventieth.
The paper aims to examine Serbian translations of Whitman and Poe published by the representative... more The paper aims to examine Serbian translations of Whitman and Poe published by the representatives of the 1920s avant-garde movements and to point to the place of these translations in the context of the developing Serbian modernism. A special focus is on the book series "Albatross", a short-lived but important project of Belgrade avant-gardists, which significantly influenced the course of Serbian literature.
The article is devoted to the reception of Czesław Miłosz's body of work in translations into Lit... more The article is devoted to the reception of Czesław Miłosz's body of work in translations into Lithuanian language as well as his cooperation with Lithuanian authors. The issue addressed is the reception of Miłosz's work among the writers of the "Literatūros lankai" emigrant journal and in Tomas Venclova's eyes, who himself is one of the main translators of Miłosz into Lithuanian, and the author of a newly published traduction of his A Treatise on Poetry.
The paper deals with the Polish translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra made... more The paper deals with the Polish translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra made by the Polish writer Wacław Berent (1905). The translation is considered in the context of its epoch ("Young Poland") and of Berent's own literary work. The analysis aims at distinguishing the most important stylistic features of the translation: poetic devices typical of Young Poland, such as archaisms, neologisms, and reinforcement of the original's audial qualities. Despite being criticized as "mannerist", Berent's translation appears as an innovative example of modernist translation, consistent with the symbolist model of translation.
The article deals with the analysis of Italian and Croatian translations of constructivist poems ... more The article deals with the analysis of Italian and Croatian translations of constructivist poems (the "conses") by Srečko Kosovel, one of the most important Slovene poets. The translations of selected Kosovel's constructivist poems are analysed by using Andrew Chesterman's translation strategies. The analysis shows that, for the most part, in Croatian and Italian translations the literal translation strategy prevails, with Italian translations including more frequently other translation possibilities. In general, both translators have strived to preserve the multifaceted aspects of Kosovel's constructivist poems by adopting a predominantly foreignising translation approach.
Catholic priests who were practicing artistic creativity, mostly poets, in the Czech lands, forme... more Catholic priests who were practicing artistic creativity, mostly poets, in the Czech lands, formed a group called the Catholic Modern in the nineteenth century. Jakub Deml, a Czech priest, poet, and writer from Moravia, was in close contact with the group. His works were not always positively received by concurrent readers, but today he is considered a precursor of contemporary literary trends, especially surrealism. This article presents a portrait of one of the most original Czech writers of the first half of the twentieth century. The text also takes into account the issue of the Polish translation of his work Zapomenuté svĕtlo (Forgotten Light) by Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski and published in Wołów in 2000 by the Czarne Publishing House.
* Ovaj je rad financiralo / sufinanciralo Sveučilište u zadru institucionalnim projektom broj IP.... more * Ovaj je rad financiralo / sufinanciralo Sveučilište u zadru institucionalnim projektom broj IP.01.2021.09 / This work has been fully supported by / supported in part by the University of zadar under the project number IP.01.2021.09. arTyKUły I rOzPrawy
The aim of the paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of the Polish translation of one of t... more The aim of the paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of the Polish translation of one of the most important Croatian modernist dramas A Trilogy of Dubrovnik. Ivo Vojnović's text from 1900 was translated into Polish relatively quickly. Its first excerpts were published as early as 1904. The translation of the entire text by Helena d' Abancourt de Franqueville appeared in the periodical "Przegląd Polski" in 1906, and the book version was published in 1910. In the same year, the play was also staged in the theatre. The article focuses primarily on the problem of the performability of the translation, understood as a reflection of theatrical signs encrypted in the source text and visible in the translation, and shows what translation difficulties are associated with it.
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's drama Lato w Nohant was translated to Slovak twice: first time, before th... more Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's drama Lato w Nohant was translated to Slovak twice: first time, before the war, but that translation ultimately did not receive acclaim and fell into oblivion; and then again in the 1970s, during the so-called normalisation of what was at the time Czechoslovakia. In this historical context, this translation would be considered socialist realist. However, the translation of Iwaszkiewicz's text defends itself from such a classification.
The article discusses the growing interest in central and eastern european literary modernisms in... more The article discusses the growing interest in central and eastern european literary modernisms in the context of the transnational turn, the translational turn and the archival turn recently diagnosed in the new modernist Studies. The aims of the investigations are twofold: (1) to draw attention to the specificity of Slavic cultures of artistic translation and their ability to refocus and rebalance Western eurocentric research on literary modernism, and (2) to introduce a new series of studies of the transnational interconnections between Slavic modernisms.
The Irish writer Oscar Wilde was extremely popular in Croatian culture in the first decades of th... more The Irish writer Oscar Wilde was extremely popular in Croatian culture in the first decades of the 20th century. Although Croatian writers of that time generally did not read the original works of British authors but rather their translations, Wilde's popularity in Germany and Vienna sparked interest in his works among the Croatian readership and spectatorship. This paper explores the translation of Wilde's Salomé from German by Julije Benešić and Nikola Andrić, and the complex influence that this translation had on Croatian literature of early modernism, relying primarily on the interpretation of the same motif in the texts of young Fran Galović and Miroslav Krleža. The paper argues that the influence of Wilde's aestheticism is visible not only in the adoption of typical motifs, characters, or atmosphere but also in the autonomous and self-reflective language play in Krleža's texts.
The paper presents the translation concept of the Library Albatross (1921), the most significant ... more The paper presents the translation concept of the Library Albatross (1921), the most significant project of today's canonical Serbian modernists and avant-garde writers. This concept is paradigmatic within the modernist creative tendencies and programs between the two world wars. Although Library published only the translation of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, the list of announced translations, the paratexts that accompany the Library's promotional material, and the translation published, allow us to discuss specific translation strategies of Albatross. Albatross translation practice is a template for more comprehensive thinking about poetic innovations of Serbian literature after first World War. Moreover, the Albatross translation platform allows us to consider the concepts of modern / modernism, periphery / center, and world literature in Serbian culture during the twenties.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2021
The paper focuses on Ukrainian and Russian translations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawre... more The paper focuses on Ukrainian and Russian translations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1989 and 1990. The framework for the analysis is provided by Loren Glass’s idea of a significant role of obscene vocabulary in the aesthetics of the twentieth-century Anglo-American literary modernism. The comparison of the two translations shows significant differences in the translators’ approaches to rendering Lawrence’s sexual-based language.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2021
Among the great number of translations by Jan Kasprowicz we find those of all tragedies by Aeschy... more Among the great number of translations by Jan Kasprowicz we find those of all tragedies by Aeschylus. Kasprowicz was fascinated and inspired by this playwright since he was a schoolboy. He also considered Aeschylus an artistic soulmate. This paper is devoted to the beginning of the second part of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, manuscripts of which have been damaged. Only 21 verses have been reconstructed from the original. However, in Kasprowicz’s translation, the beginning takes 46 verses.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2021
The publication discusses the latest translation initiatives by Wojciech Gałązka, a Bulgarian and... more The publication discusses the latest translation initiatives by Wojciech Gałązka, a Bulgarian and literary scholar and a translator of Bulgarian literature. Between 2019 and 2020, six works by Bulgarian writers and poets translated by Wojciech Gałązka were published: the novel Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov (2020); volumes of verse Revealed from Anywhere by Petar Parvanov (2019), Seasons of Feelings by Petar Karaangov
(2020), Moon Spots by Nikolay Liliev (2020), A Dream of Happiness by Pencho Slaveykov (2020), as well as poetic prose and poems included in the collection Against the Absence by Nikolay Kantchev (2020). The review has been supplemented with a commentary on specific problems related to translation practice, such as sound and grammatical structures, the translatability of idiomatic expressions, taking into account the literary convention in translation and issues related to the understanding of translation as an intercultural transfer.
TSL Issue 10.2/2020 by Translations of Slavic Literatures
Wstęp oddajemy w Państwa ręce i polecamy lekturze kolejną, dziesiątą już, prezentację bibliografi... more Wstęp oddajemy w Państwa ręce i polecamy lekturze kolejną, dziesiątą już, prezentację bibliografii przekładów literatur słowiańskich: bułgarskiej, chorwackiej, czeskiej, macedońskiej, serbskiej, słowackiej i słoweńskiej na język polski oraz literatury polskiej na języki: bułgarski, chorwacki, czeski, macedoński, serbski, słowacki i słoweński. Regularnie publikowane zestawienia bibliograficzne przygotowywane są przez międzynarodowy zespół badaczy slawistów i w ciągu ostatniej dekady stały się ważnym świadectwem tego, że tłumaczenia z tzw. języków półperyferyjnych i peryferyjnych są ważne, wciąż powstają, cieszą się zainteresowaniem czytelników, krytyków i badaczy, ale też charakteryzują się właściwą sobie dynamiką i poddane są odmiennym tendencjom niż tłumaczenia z języka hipercentrowego, za jaki uznany został język angielski, czy języków centrowych (francuski, niemiecki).
This article is a commentary on the changing reception of Bulgarian literature in Poland in 2018 ... more This article is a commentary on the changing reception of Bulgarian literature in Poland in 2018 and 2019. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the literary field, it shows the mechanisms of recognition by the main actors within the field, including publishers, media, and others. The analysis focuses on three books translated from Bulgarian to Polish in 2018: Sofia Berlin, by Plamen Doynov, and Koniec minotaurów (The End of the Minotaurs) and Fizyka smutku (The Physics of Sorrow), both by Georgi Gospodinov. The analysis is made on two levels. One is generic, owing to the fact that two of the three books are poetry. The second is authorial, as two of the books are by the same author.
The primary purpose of this publication is to describe the last thirty years, comparing and organ... more The primary purpose of this publication is to describe the last thirty years, comparing and organizing the phenomena in the reception of czech literature for children and young adults in Poland after 1989. The mutual Polish-czech relations and the reconstruction of the Polish publishing system had a significant impact on the nature and intensity of this reception. The relations from the end of World War ii to 1989 were limited by specific political, economic, and cultural conditions and controlled by the state institutions established for that purpose.
The unequal import of (literary) translations of male and female authors from Bosnia, Croatia and... more The unequal import of (literary) translations of male and female authors from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia in German will be critically examined in this article regarding the following three aspects: 1. The gender differences in the quantity of translations; 2. The selection strategies for the translation of female authors, especially in the period from 1992 to 2012 (which mostly covers the period of the yugoslav wars); 3. The role of female actors in the translatory field. The answers to these questions will show whether in this period one could speak of the "gender translation gap".
In the paper we analyze and compare two translations of Prešeren's poem Slovo od mladosti (Farewe... more In the paper we analyze and compare two translations of Prešeren's poem Slovo od mladosti (Farewell to youth) as cultural and literary artifacts. We focus on linguistic and stylistic solutions as well as decisions in the context of cultural transfer. First, we research the translation by František L. Čelakovski (1799-1852), published in 1832 in the newspaper Časopis českého Museum from the period of romanticism, and second, the translation of the same Prešeren's poem by Josef Hiršal (1920-2003), a famous poet of experimental poetry and a well-known Czech translator of his time, published in the book Můj sen šel po hladině (My dream faded on the water surface, 1978). We emphasize on Hiršal's translation from the period of the Czech experimental poetry from the sixtieth and seventieth.
The paper aims to examine Serbian translations of Whitman and Poe published by the representative... more The paper aims to examine Serbian translations of Whitman and Poe published by the representatives of the 1920s avant-garde movements and to point to the place of these translations in the context of the developing Serbian modernism. A special focus is on the book series "Albatross", a short-lived but important project of Belgrade avant-gardists, which significantly influenced the course of Serbian literature.
The article is devoted to the reception of Czesław Miłosz's body of work in translations into Lit... more The article is devoted to the reception of Czesław Miłosz's body of work in translations into Lithuanian language as well as his cooperation with Lithuanian authors. The issue addressed is the reception of Miłosz's work among the writers of the "Literatūros lankai" emigrant journal and in Tomas Venclova's eyes, who himself is one of the main translators of Miłosz into Lithuanian, and the author of a newly published traduction of his A Treatise on Poetry.
The paper deals with the Polish translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra made... more The paper deals with the Polish translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra made by the Polish writer Wacław Berent (1905). The translation is considered in the context of its epoch ("Young Poland") and of Berent's own literary work. The analysis aims at distinguishing the most important stylistic features of the translation: poetic devices typical of Young Poland, such as archaisms, neologisms, and reinforcement of the original's audial qualities. Despite being criticized as "mannerist", Berent's translation appears as an innovative example of modernist translation, consistent with the symbolist model of translation.
The article deals with the analysis of Italian and Croatian translations of constructivist poems ... more The article deals with the analysis of Italian and Croatian translations of constructivist poems (the "conses") by Srečko Kosovel, one of the most important Slovene poets. The translations of selected Kosovel's constructivist poems are analysed by using Andrew Chesterman's translation strategies. The analysis shows that, for the most part, in Croatian and Italian translations the literal translation strategy prevails, with Italian translations including more frequently other translation possibilities. In general, both translators have strived to preserve the multifaceted aspects of Kosovel's constructivist poems by adopting a predominantly foreignising translation approach.
Catholic priests who were practicing artistic creativity, mostly poets, in the Czech lands, forme... more Catholic priests who were practicing artistic creativity, mostly poets, in the Czech lands, formed a group called the Catholic Modern in the nineteenth century. Jakub Deml, a Czech priest, poet, and writer from Moravia, was in close contact with the group. His works were not always positively received by concurrent readers, but today he is considered a precursor of contemporary literary trends, especially surrealism. This article presents a portrait of one of the most original Czech writers of the first half of the twentieth century. The text also takes into account the issue of the Polish translation of his work Zapomenuté svĕtlo (Forgotten Light) by Andrzej Czcibor-Piotrowski and published in Wołów in 2000 by the Czarne Publishing House.
* Ovaj je rad financiralo / sufinanciralo Sveučilište u zadru institucionalnim projektom broj IP.... more * Ovaj je rad financiralo / sufinanciralo Sveučilište u zadru institucionalnim projektom broj IP.01.2021.09 / This work has been fully supported by / supported in part by the University of zadar under the project number IP.01.2021.09. arTyKUły I rOzPrawy
The aim of the paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of the Polish translation of one of t... more The aim of the paper is to carry out a comparative analysis of the Polish translation of one of the most important Croatian modernist dramas A Trilogy of Dubrovnik. Ivo Vojnović's text from 1900 was translated into Polish relatively quickly. Its first excerpts were published as early as 1904. The translation of the entire text by Helena d' Abancourt de Franqueville appeared in the periodical "Przegląd Polski" in 1906, and the book version was published in 1910. In the same year, the play was also staged in the theatre. The article focuses primarily on the problem of the performability of the translation, understood as a reflection of theatrical signs encrypted in the source text and visible in the translation, and shows what translation difficulties are associated with it.
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's drama Lato w Nohant was translated to Slovak twice: first time, before th... more Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's drama Lato w Nohant was translated to Slovak twice: first time, before the war, but that translation ultimately did not receive acclaim and fell into oblivion; and then again in the 1970s, during the so-called normalisation of what was at the time Czechoslovakia. In this historical context, this translation would be considered socialist realist. However, the translation of Iwaszkiewicz's text defends itself from such a classification.
The article discusses the growing interest in central and eastern european literary modernisms in... more The article discusses the growing interest in central and eastern european literary modernisms in the context of the transnational turn, the translational turn and the archival turn recently diagnosed in the new modernist Studies. The aims of the investigations are twofold: (1) to draw attention to the specificity of Slavic cultures of artistic translation and their ability to refocus and rebalance Western eurocentric research on literary modernism, and (2) to introduce a new series of studies of the transnational interconnections between Slavic modernisms.
The Irish writer Oscar Wilde was extremely popular in Croatian culture in the first decades of th... more The Irish writer Oscar Wilde was extremely popular in Croatian culture in the first decades of the 20th century. Although Croatian writers of that time generally did not read the original works of British authors but rather their translations, Wilde's popularity in Germany and Vienna sparked interest in his works among the Croatian readership and spectatorship. This paper explores the translation of Wilde's Salomé from German by Julije Benešić and Nikola Andrić, and the complex influence that this translation had on Croatian literature of early modernism, relying primarily on the interpretation of the same motif in the texts of young Fran Galović and Miroslav Krleža. The paper argues that the influence of Wilde's aestheticism is visible not only in the adoption of typical motifs, characters, or atmosphere but also in the autonomous and self-reflective language play in Krleža's texts.
The paper presents the translation concept of the Library Albatross (1921), the most significant ... more The paper presents the translation concept of the Library Albatross (1921), the most significant project of today's canonical Serbian modernists and avant-garde writers. This concept is paradigmatic within the modernist creative tendencies and programs between the two world wars. Although Library published only the translation of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, the list of announced translations, the paratexts that accompany the Library's promotional material, and the translation published, allow us to discuss specific translation strategies of Albatross. Albatross translation practice is a template for more comprehensive thinking about poetic innovations of Serbian literature after first World War. Moreover, the Albatross translation platform allows us to consider the concepts of modern / modernism, periphery / center, and world literature in Serbian culture during the twenties.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2021
The paper focuses on Ukrainian and Russian translations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawre... more The paper focuses on Ukrainian and Russian translations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1989 and 1990. The framework for the analysis is provided by Loren Glass’s idea of a significant role of obscene vocabulary in the aesthetics of the twentieth-century Anglo-American literary modernism. The comparison of the two translations shows significant differences in the translators’ approaches to rendering Lawrence’s sexual-based language.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2021
Among the great number of translations by Jan Kasprowicz we find those of all tragedies by Aeschy... more Among the great number of translations by Jan Kasprowicz we find those of all tragedies by Aeschylus. Kasprowicz was fascinated and inspired by this playwright since he was a schoolboy. He also considered Aeschylus an artistic soulmate. This paper is devoted to the beginning of the second part of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, manuscripts of which have been damaged. Only 21 verses have been reconstructed from the original. However, in Kasprowicz’s translation, the beginning takes 46 verses.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2021
The publication discusses the latest translation initiatives by Wojciech Gałązka, a Bulgarian and... more The publication discusses the latest translation initiatives by Wojciech Gałązka, a Bulgarian and literary scholar and a translator of Bulgarian literature. Between 2019 and 2020, six works by Bulgarian writers and poets translated by Wojciech Gałązka were published: the novel Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov (2020); volumes of verse Revealed from Anywhere by Petar Parvanov (2019), Seasons of Feelings by Petar Karaangov
(2020), Moon Spots by Nikolay Liliev (2020), A Dream of Happiness by Pencho Slaveykov (2020), as well as poetic prose and poems included in the collection Against the Absence by Nikolay Kantchev (2020). The review has been supplemented with a commentary on specific problems related to translation practice, such as sound and grammatical structures, the translatability of idiomatic expressions, taking into account the literary convention in translation and issues related to the understanding of translation as an intercultural transfer.
Wstęp oddajemy w Państwa ręce i polecamy lekturze kolejną, dziesiątą już, prezentację bibliografi... more Wstęp oddajemy w Państwa ręce i polecamy lekturze kolejną, dziesiątą już, prezentację bibliografii przekładów literatur słowiańskich: bułgarskiej, chorwackiej, czeskiej, macedońskiej, serbskiej, słowackiej i słoweńskiej na język polski oraz literatury polskiej na języki: bułgarski, chorwacki, czeski, macedoński, serbski, słowacki i słoweński. Regularnie publikowane zestawienia bibliograficzne przygotowywane są przez międzynarodowy zespół badaczy slawistów i w ciągu ostatniej dekady stały się ważnym świadectwem tego, że tłumaczenia z tzw. języków półperyferyjnych i peryferyjnych są ważne, wciąż powstają, cieszą się zainteresowaniem czytelników, krytyków i badaczy, ale też charakteryzują się właściwą sobie dynamiką i poddane są odmiennym tendencjom niż tłumaczenia z języka hipercentrowego, za jaki uznany został język angielski, czy języków centrowych (francuski, niemiecki).
This article is a commentary on the changing reception of Bulgarian literature in Poland in 2018 ... more This article is a commentary on the changing reception of Bulgarian literature in Poland in 2018 and 2019. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the literary field, it shows the mechanisms of recognition by the main actors within the field, including publishers, media, and others. The analysis focuses on three books translated from Bulgarian to Polish in 2018: Sofia Berlin, by Plamen Doynov, and Koniec minotaurów (The End of the Minotaurs) and Fizyka smutku (The Physics of Sorrow), both by Georgi Gospodinov. The analysis is made on two levels. One is generic, owing to the fact that two of the three books are poetry. The second is authorial, as two of the books are by the same author.
This article discusses Olga Tokarczuk's presence in Bulgaria, drawing on R. Cudak's theory of rec... more This article discusses Olga Tokarczuk's presence in Bulgaria, drawing on R. Cudak's theory of reception while presenting translations, strategies of publication and promotion, literary and critical reflection, and non-literary forms of reception. Widescale, effective, and multi-dimensional promotion, reliable translation (S. Borisova, D. Hamze, H. Simeonova-Mitova, G. Krastev), as well as the openness and interest of readers, have created possibilities for an increase in the popularity of Olga Tokarczuk's works in Bulgaria within the last two decades. The development in Bulgarian culture of critical and literary thought surrounding Tokarczuk's works (M. Grigorova) is accompanied by the presence of book translations and other selected texts in leading newspapers and magazines ("Literaturen vestnik", "Panorama", "Kultura"), constituting a significant platform for the popularization of Polish literature.
In this commentary, we will limit ourselves to presenting the reception of Czech literature in Po... more In this commentary, we will limit ourselves to presenting the reception of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in the Czech Republic in the year 2018. Czech and Polish literature reaches its readers across their respective borders in several ways: via translations of books by well-known and esteemed writers; through representatives of the younger generation; and as translations of prose and poetry published in magazines. The reception of Polish and Czech literature has been very positive; specifically, there is a growing interest among Polish readers in Czech literary offerings.
Since the turn of the millennium, Serbian drama has been increasingly valued and recognized in th... more Since the turn of the millennium, Serbian drama has been increasingly valued and recognized in the post-Yugoslav region and in Europe. In recent years, the process of globalization has become progressively stronger, with an improved infrastructure for promotion that has made possible the crossing of material and symbolic boundaries. This in turn has led to transformations in artistic expression, as well as increasing opportunities for mobility, co-productions, and translations. The status of the drama has been somewhat problematic because of its situation between literature and theatre. Its heterogeneous nature has required the development of an appropriate method of presentation. The performative/stage reading has emerged as a compelling answer. KEYWORDS | Serbian drama and theatre, translation of the dramatic text, performative/stage readings, promotion system, Serbian drama in Poland * Praca powstała w ramach projektu badawczego nr 2017 / 24 / C / HS2 / 00436, finansowanego ze środków Narodowego Centrum Nauki.
This article reviews the body of Slovenian translations of Polish literature in 2018, discussing ... more This article reviews the body of Slovenian translations of Polish literature in 2018, discussing their reception and presentations, including a somewhat belated response to The Books of Jacob by recent Polish Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. Seven book translations from Polish were published in 2018, including two books of poetry, one festival chapbook, two novels, and two picture books for toddlers. It appears that in 2018, the world of translation from Polish to Slovenian witnessed a slight shift in publishers' interests from prose to poetry. It is as yet uncertain whether this change will establish itself as a long-term trend, but so far it is certain that the tendency has continued into 2019. Therefore, this article deals with the translations of Polish poetry of 2018 from a slightly broader perspective, including some editions from the following year.
The bibliography of Polish literature translated into Czech in 2018 is characterized by a tendenc... more The bibliography of Polish literature translated into Czech in 2018 is characterized by a tendency to publish popular and commercially attractive titles: genre fiction and literature for children. The author is concerned with sample passages from Ziemowit Szczerek's translations of prose published in the A2 literary magazine and discusses possible consequences for the target language of the euphemisation of slang and vulgarisms in the translation of gonzo journalism texts.
This article is about the specific language that the translator is faced with translating The Cyb... more This article is about the specific language that the translator is faced with translating The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem and some of the difficulties that are caused by the conception of the whole book. Considering that it is a science-fiction, it is natural that the main problems are neologisms made by Lem, but it appears that it is not the only one. We are trying to make an outline of the whole process of translating The Cyberiad, underlining some of the difficulties that the translator in Macedonian language could have come upon. Analyses contains of problems with word formation, poetic language, phraseology, archaisms and neologisms.
This article presents 21st-century Macedonian prose as it appears in contemporary Polish translat... more This article presents 21st-century Macedonian prose as it appears in contemporary Polish translation. Novels and stories by Macedonian authors are evidence of the great degreee to which this literature has recently developed. Topics under consideration include an analysis of the fine quality of modern Macedonian prose, as well as the high attainment of its Polish translators, who, using their own translation strategies, successfully transfer one cultural code to another.
This article focuses on the career of Jerzy Pleśniarowicz, the well-known poet of the Józef Czech... more This article focuses on the career of Jerzy Pleśniarowicz, the well-known poet of the Józef Czechowicz group and Polish translator of Slavic literatures, as well as dramatist and theatre director. A discussion of the output of this poet and translator is accompanied by an analysis of his Polish translations of Slovak poetry presented in the 2018 volume Wiersze i przekłady wierszy (Poems and Translated Poems). The article considers Pleśniarowicz's translation choices, elucidates his translation strategies, and discusses the contemporary significance of this poetry within the Polish sphere of reception.
This article discusses Drago Jančar's 1997 essay, Adam Michnik ali premišljevanje o Poljski (Adam... more This article discusses Drago Jančar's 1997 essay, Adam Michnik ali premišljevanje o Poljski (Adam Michnik; Or, Reflections on Poland). The essay was translated into Polish first by Joanna Pomorska (2001) and then, about two decades later, by Nikodem Szczygłowski. The aim of the article is to interpret Jančar's essay in light of ongoing changes to the political situation in Europe and to evaluate to what extent the political context influences the interpretation of the work in question.
| Translators' footnotes typically serve as an instrument to explain culture-related expressions ... more | Translators' footnotes typically serve as an instrument to explain culture-related expressions that are difficult to transmit through a foreign language. The Slovak translation of The Issa Valley includes eighty eight footnotes from the translator which fulfil a range of functions. The author of this paper categorizes and analyses the footnotes in order to assess their impact, both on the reader and on the perception of the translation by the receiving culture.
This article summarizes and discusses the body of translations from Croatian literature published... more This article summarizes and discusses the body of translations from Croatian literature published in Poland in 2018. The most significant offering to appear on the Polish market that year was a multilingual collection of mid-career poetry by Dorta Jagić entitled The Portrait of The Body, containing Croatian originals and their translations into Polish (by M. Wierzbicka) and English (by D. Šodan, M. Đurđević). "Synoptic" editions (bilingual or multilingual) allow the reader to view both the original and its translation, which has three major benefits: it contributes to a better circulation of texts; enables deziluzionist reading (the awareness of the difference between the original and the translation); and establishes an intertextual bond between the collected texts.
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In Volume 10, Part 1, of the journal Translations of Slavic Literatures, we publish articles coll... more In Volume 10, Part 1, of the journal Translations of Slavic Literatures, we publish articles collected from the conference “Peripheries and Translation”, held in Ustroń from 11 to 13 October, 2018. Interest in the category of peripherality is, on the one hand, a consequence of the postmodern crisis of grand narratives; on the other, it has a certain amount of ubiquity, because peripheral phenomena (left unexplored or unperceived in culture) have attracted writers and artists of every epoch. The authors of the articles here examine the problem from a number of perspectives and research positions, and the material under scrutiny is varied in terms of language. Among the topics they address are: experiment in translation; translation from one of the Slovakian dialects into the standard language; Polish-mediated translations of English and Russian literatures into the regional language of Kashubian; the problem of the Polish reception of Old Serbian literature; the possibility of translating into a third language the peculiar dialogue among Canadian poets in French and English; the potential of translating creative literature from Polish into English; relationships between a writer’s own work and translations, drawing from the example of two cases removed from each other in time and space; translation of gay novels and the rhetorical figure of the onomatopoeia; the problem of minor literature and of “literature from cultural periphery” which has found its way into literary salons [higher spheres]; Polish reception of Czech structuralist thought; translation as a form of promotion, and what happens when a flawed translation becomes a success. Among the authors (some appearing here in a double role, as author of both the original work and the translation) whose work’s translations have been examined are Adam Mickiewicz, Wisława Szymborska, Julian Tuwim, Michał Witkowski, Robert J. Szmidt, Jan Mukařovský, Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, August Šenoa, Herta Müller, Jozef Kolarčik-Frantický, Edward D. Blodgett, Jacques Brault, Brina Švigelj-Mérat. Translators under consideration include Julia Hartwig, August Šenoa, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh, Susan Bassnett, Piotr Kuhiwczak, Andrij Bondar, Jasmin Novljaković, Enes Kišević, Maria Dąbrowska-Partyka, Aleksander E. Naumow, Radka Denemarková.
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Jan Mukařovský (1891—1975) is a character who does not need to be introduced to Polish humanists.... more Jan Mukařovský (1891—1975) is a character who does not need to be introduced to Polish humanists. Recognized as a leading representative of structuralism, the so-called Prague School has its place in the history of literary theory, as well as the entire school of thought. Most of Mukařovsky’s texts, as well as those by others from Prague, which we know today as articles in magazines or books, were given at the meetings of the Prague Linguistic Circle as lectures. The presence of Czech structuralism, including the work of Jan Mukařovský, is not a closed issue in Poland. In the article, we will trace the Polish presence of his texts from the 1940s to the latest translations by Aneta Daszuta, which also contain critical studies and those are Zamierzone i niezamierzone w sztuce (Warsaw 2014) and Studia semiologiczne (Warsaw 2017).
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| This paper will be devoted to the peripheral nature of Herta Müller's oeuvre. müller is regarde... more | This paper will be devoted to the peripheral nature of Herta Müller's oeuvre. müller is regarded as a person who created "german-language literature from the cultural periphery of the german linguistic area. " in relation to translation, the article aims to determine what place czech translations of müller's oeuvre occupy in czech literature compared to german literature. The research also focuses on the issue of embedding translation in a polysystem that embraces translation as an interrelated system of culture, language, literature, and society.
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| The paper attempts to describe selected aspects of the impact of new concepts (such as history ... more | The paper attempts to describe selected aspects of the impact of new concepts (such as history of European literature or history of the world republic of literature) that have entered into the literary and translation discourse and that coexist with the traditional categories such as ancient literature, modern literature, national literature, world literature, synthesis of the history of literature or process of the history of literature. The "confusion of tongues" (confusio linguarum) connected with the emergence of these novel concepts has undoubtedly affected the discipline of translation studies and, in particular, the promotional aspects of translation and self-translation as well as other related phenomena. an interesting role in this discussion is also played by what i refer to as "perspective, " from which the incorporation of given works or authors into European literature or world literature is being observed. in two out of the four analyzed works, the French (Parisian) perspective prevails, characteristic of a certain stage of comparative studies that seemed to have lost significance some time ago. The two remaining works, written from the czech perspective, are addressed to english-and german-speaking readers, respectively.
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| The article draws on the deleuzoguattarian conceptualisation of minor literature in order to an... more | The article draws on the deleuzoguattarian conceptualisation of minor literature in order to analyse the literature of Brina Svit. The concepts of (de)territorial-isation (schizophrenia), minor, and other attributes of minor literature are employed in the comparative analysis of different literary elements of four of Brina Svit's novels. The article outlines the 'line of flight' (defined as deterritorialisation, de-oedipisation, polit-icalness, and collectiveness) that manifests itself from Svit's novels written in Slovenian to the novels written in French. The literature of Brina Svit is placed in between minor literature and minority literature. KeyWoRdS | minor literature, language, politicalness, (de)territorialisation, the novels of Brina Svit * This article is a part of the project The Production
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data zgłoszenia: 5.01.2020 r. | data akceptacji: 13.02.2020 r. aBSTRacT | This article analyzes t... more data zgłoszenia: 5.01.2020 r. | data akceptacji: 13.02.2020 r. aBSTRacT | This article analyzes the onomatopoeias in the poem Locomotive by julian Tuwim and its translation into croatian. onomatopoeia is a figure of speech and a linguistic principle deeply rooted in the phonic layer of language and in its culture. The sound organization of the text based on this phenomenon creates not only the formal level, but also the semantic level of the poem. Translating process structures of this type requires not only knowledge of the phonic features of language systems, but also poetic skills.
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| August Šenoa (1838-1881) is a central figure of the Croatian literature of the second half of t... more | August Šenoa (1838-1881) is a central figure of the Croatian literature of the second half of the 19th century. He consistently implemented the ideas from his theoretical treatises in his literary opus and formulated his poetics of translation in accordance with his literary ideas. in that system Romance and Slavic literatures were thus given a special place, and on the stylistic-historical level, Šenoa advocated for the transitional period from Romanticism into Realism. The examples of Šenoa's translations of world literature into the Croatian language and the most recent translation of Šenoa into English reveal that in the adaptations the periphery and the centre, in the changeable relations of the economy of literature, draw near each other.
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Izabela Lis-Wielgosz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-1118 adam micKieWicz UniVeRSiTy in Poznań l... more Izabela Lis-Wielgosz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-1118 adam micKieWicz UniVeRSiTy in Poznań liswielg@amu.edu.pl data zgłoszenia: 25.03.2019 r. | data akceptacji: 10.02.2020 r. aBSTRacT | in the article, a problem of translation of the old Serbian literary texts into Polish is discussed together with the basic mechanisms of the reception process of creativity revealed by the orthodox Slavs from the Balkan region, that is, in other words, the works arisen in the circle of the Slaviae Orthodoxae and their presence in the Polish culture's space which belonged to the circle of the Slaviae Latinae. The considerations regard the essence and function of translation, presence and absence of translated literature its initial version in the target space, and their foundation is located in the * Publikacja powstała w związku z realizacją projektu pt. "Recepcja piśmiennictwa oraz literatury ludowej kręgu Slaviae Orthodoxae w Polsce-historia i bibliografia twór-czości przekładowej", realizowanego w centrum ceraneum Uniwersytetu łódzkiego. Projekt został sfinansowany ze środków narodowego centrum nauki przyznanych na podstawie decyzji numer dec-2012 / 05 / e / HS2 / 03827.
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| The article concerns translations of Russian and english literature into Kashubian, done second... more | The article concerns translations of Russian and english literature into Kashubian, done secondhand. Kashubian translators follow the interpretations suggested in previous Polish translations and borrow phrasing and proverbs from Polish target texts. The language constructions used by the Kashubian translators sound unnatural. in this context, Kashubian is a language dominated by Polish.
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| The present study focuses on the challenges of the intralingual translation from the peripheral... more | The present study focuses on the challenges of the intralingual translation from the peripheral dialect into official, standard Slovak that has been performed on unique Šariš region dialect fairy tales preserved in the village Fintice. They have been published recently in a bilingual form with their Slovak translation Zazračni dzvonček-Zázračný zvonček (Face 2018). The first part of the paper points out the peripheral aspects of the analysed text and stresses the importance of presenting such forgotten literary pieces for the community identity as well as for preserving community cultural heritage. The second part of the paper focuses on translation analysis and differences between the two texts on morpho-syntactic and lexical level, and in the degree of expressiveness.
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Polish speculative fiction occupies a peripheral position with regard to its English-language cou... more Polish speculative fiction occupies a peripheral position with regard to its English-language counterpart, which becomes visible in the context of the polysystem theory and the genre’s founding texts. On the example of Otchłań by Robert J. Szmidt, a novel from Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033 universe, it is possible to show the features of a potential translation, focused on the strategy of foreignization, which would determine the peripheral character of the target text. These features are, among others: neologisms, word plays or references to Polish reality.
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The paper focuses on the Ukrainian translation of Michał Witkowski’s Lovetown, published in 2006,... more The paper focuses on the Ukrainian translation of Michał Witkowski’s Lovetown, published in 2006, in the context of social and cultural background of today’s Ukraine. The decision of the translator Andrii Bondar to render the text into Ukrainian may be regarded as an aesthetic gesture directed against traditional patterns and models in the target literature. This decision finds its logical continuation in the translator’s approach to rendering the original stylistic pattern, which results in a series of shifts in register from neutral to colloquial and from colloquial to vulgar. This strategy is rather peripheral for the translation traditions of the target literary culture.
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Transfiguration is a poetry collection in which not only creation is transformed into translation... more Transfiguration is a poetry collection in which not only creation is transformed into translation, but it is translation that triggers an act of creative writing. Two Canadian poets, an Anglophone — Edward D. Blodgett and a Francophone — Jacques Brault, conduct an original dialogue: each of them writes a poem in his mother tongue, and then each consecutive fragment is a response to a previous poem, which is an interesting French and English mosaic. Moreover, the volume also gains a strictly translative dimension, as it is Brault who translates Blodgett’s poems and vice versa. The unprecedented collection is one of the rare examples of a connection between the two cultures. Furthermore, it is an interesting illustration of the phenomenon of border crossing between cultures, languages and creative activities. The article describes the specificity of bilingual writing and seeks to answer the question about the possibilities of translating a bilingual text into a third language.
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The author discusses a new feature, which develops in Julia Hartwig’s poetry after her several vi... more The author discusses a new feature, which develops in Julia Hartwig’s poetry after her several visits to the States in the years 1970—1974 and her immediate introduction to the American verse — through reading and translating. In Hartwig’s poetry, new mundane lyrical situations appear and her verse becomes much more concrete, but also voyeuristic. Some analyses of excerpts from her Dziennik amerykański [American Diary] and Wiersze amerykańskie [Americana] are provided, as well as of The Young Housewife by William Carlos Williams in Polish translations done by Hartwig, Piotr Sommer, and Stanisław Barańczak.
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Both of the concepts — mistranslation and literary success — are far from being clear and unambig... more Both of the concepts — mistranslation and literary success — are far from being clear and unambiguous, which leads to various limitations on the one hand, but also to potentially beneficial new readings on the other. Moreover, the difference between a translation and a mistranslation is not an easy one to assess (particularly when poetry is concerned) just like any literary success is difficult to measure. Apart from evidence such as reception, we are left mostly with aesthetic criteria when assessing a literary success and, to some extent, also the successfulness of any translation. In order to discuss such unclear but deeply intertwined issues, I look into three matters. Firstly, I draw attention to two undeniable examples of both mistranslation and literary success to point out possible (and impossible) criteria of both phenomena. Secondly, I proceed to a particular case of a (mis)translation and literary success (Auden’s version of Mickiewicz’s “Romantyczność”), to shed some more light on the issues in question. In the end, I confront the case with another seemingly similar one (Bassnett & Kuhiwczak’s rendition of Szymborska’s “Dzieci epoki”), yet resulting in a different outcome. At the end I point out where, in my opinion, lies a difference in assessing a particular (mis)translation and its literary success.
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Artykuł podejmuje problemy postmodernistycznego przekładu eksperymentalnego jako pastiszu history... more Artykuł podejmuje problemy postmodernistycznego przekładu eksperymentalnego jako pastiszu historycznych awangardowych stylów twórczości. Post-awangardowe style produkcji translatorskiej, sytuując się na peryferiach sztuki przekładu, pozwalają wyeksponować podstawowe problemy teoretyczne głównych nurtów współczesnego przekładoznawstwa literacko-kulturowego spod znaku „zwrotu twórczego”. The analysis of stylistic, compositional, and typographic devices used in postmodernist translational experiments shows that they predominantly rely on repetition and reminiscence of artistic ideas of the historical avant-garde as a source of their innovativeness. This paper examines the creative potential of (post) avant-garde styles of translational production, associated not merely with applying, adapting, and improving the various avant-garde techniques of disillusion but rather with transferring the avant-garde disillusion into the environment of translation with all its norms, conventions, semantics, and pragmatics of interlingual and intercultural communication.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2017). T. 9. Cz. 3. Red. Marta Buczek. Katowice, ... more Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2017). T. 9. Cz. 3. Red. Marta Buczek. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2019 – W Bibliografii przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2017) odnotowano przekłady literatur słowiańskich, które ukazały się w roku 2017 oraz zaprezentowano artykuły naukowe oraz przeglądowe dotyczące ich recepcji / In the Bibliography of Translations of Slavic Literatures (2017), translations which appeared in 2017 were recorded and some of them commented in scientific and review articles.
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Tom 9. część 3 czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich”: Bibliografia przekładów literatur s... more Tom 9. część 3 czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich”: Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2017) to kolejna już prezentacja bibliografii przekładów literatur: bułgarskiej, chorwackiej, czeskiej, macedońskiej, serbskiej, słowackiej i słoweńskiej na język polski oraz literatury polskiej na języki: bułgarski, chorwacki, czeski, macedoński, serbski, słowacki i słoweński, obejmująca tym razem rok 2017. Bibliografia, od 10 lat przygotowywana przez międzynarodowy zespół badaczy slawistów, daje świadectwo obecności literatur słowiańskich w kulturze polskiej oraz literatury polskiej w poszczególnych krajach słowiańskich, pozwalając spojrzeć na fakty translatorskie z punktu widzenia zmieniającej się sytuacji kulturowej, dostarcza wiedzy na temat komunikacji międzykulturowej, recepcji literatury obcej (słowiańskiej), wzajemnych międzynarodowych kontaktów między Słowianami zachodnimi i południowymi, odzwierciedlając panujące w kulturach i literaturach tendencje. Opracowane w niniejszym tomie przeglądy bibliograficzne uzupełniają artykuły przeglądowe i komentarze, dotyczące przekładów z poszczególnych literatur słowiańskich na język polski oraz literatury polskiej na inne języki słowiańskie, w których autorzy próbują spojrzeć krytycznie i analitycznie na twórczość przekładową, biorąc pod uwagę wzajemne kontakty literackie, potrzeby kultury przyjmującej, a także rolę tłumacza w akcie translacji. Artykuły i komentarze, uzewnętrzniające różnice i podobieństwa między kulturami, określające tendencje ogólnie panujące w sekundarnym horyzoncie, również pole zainteresowań instytucji życia literackiego kultury przyjmującej (wydawnictw, krytyki literackiej, czasopism), połączone z opracowaniami bibliograficznymi, skierowane są do literaturoznawców, przekładoznawców – naukowców, krytyków, slawistów, także studentów. Założeniem czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich” jest ciągłe poszerzanie obszaru badań oraz budowanie i podtrzymywanie wiedzy na temat ukazujących się współcześnie przekładów literatur słowiańskich, stanowiących ważną przestrzeń komunikacji międzykulturowej.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2017). T. 9. Cz. 3. Red. Marta Buczek. Katowice, ... more Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2017). T. 9. Cz. 3. Red. Marta Buczek. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2019 - Spis treści / The Bibliography of Translations of Slavic Literatures (2017). T. 9. Cz. 3. Ed. Marta Buczek. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2019 - Contents
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury bułgarskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bi... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury bułgarskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Bulgarian literature which were translated in Poland in 2017.
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The article comments on milen Ruskov's third novel "Summit" (The Heights / Възвишение, 2011) and ... more The article comments on milen Ruskov's third novel "Summit" (The Heights / Възвишение, 2011) and its critical acclaim in Bulgaria. Set in 19th-century milieu, the revolutionary struggles and the novel's unique language have been indicated by critics as its most outstanding aspects that provoke new debates on the national and linguistic identity of contemporary Bulgarians. At the same time the novel's Polish translation by Magdalena Pytlak (Wzniesienie, 2017) poses other questions concerning the promotion of modern Bulgarian culture abroad, the translatability of Ruskov's work and the translator's strategies in terms of successfully "importing" Bulgarian literature into the Polish context.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Bułgarii w 2017 roku / The Bibli... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Bułgarii w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Polish literature which were translated in Bulgaria in 2017.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury chorwackiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibl... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury chorwackiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of croatian literature which were translated in Poland in 2017.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Chorwacji w 2017 roku / The Bibl... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Chorwacji w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Polish literature which were translated in Croatia in 2017.
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The article gives a brief overview of translated Polish literature in croatia in 2017 and conside... more The article gives a brief overview of translated Polish literature in croatia in 2017 and considers the visibility of Polish poetry in a body of literary works translated after 1990, focusing on contemporary phenomena such as poetry in new media and the place it takes in the contemporary reception.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury czeskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliog... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury czeskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Czech literature which were translated in Poland in 2017.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, która ukazała się w Czechach w 2017 roku / The Bibli... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, która ukazała się w Czechach w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Polish literature which were translated in the Czech Republic in 2017.
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Presented article is a recapitulation of visible tendencies in both Polish and Czech publishing m... more Presented article is a recapitulation of visible tendencies in both Polish
and Czech publishing markets with regard to publications of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017. It presents the most important literary translations in each language pair, pointing out leading publishers and the most active translators in this area. Finally, the author outlines general paths along which the Polish literature translations in the Czech Republic and vice versa develop.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury macedońskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bib... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury macedońskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Macedonian literature which were translated in Poland in 2017.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Macedonii w 2017 roku / The Bibl... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Macedonii w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Polish literature which were translated in Macedonia in 2017.
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This article is about the reception of Kapuściński's book "Another Day of Life" which was transla... more This article is about the reception of Kapuściński's book "Another Day of Life" which was translated and published in Macedonia in 2017. This text explains the reasons of the delayed translation of Kapuściński's book and the social environment surrounding its reception, as well as the reception of the reportage as a literary genre in Macedonia. Those are part of the reasons why this literary master has passed by almost unnoticed in this culture and his works are pushed aside from the main literary streams. The article also deals with translating problems concerning the alienation / otherness and the way foreign realities are transferred from Polish to Macedonian language.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury serbskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Biblio... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury serbskiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Serbian literature which were translated in Poland in 2017.
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Serbii w 2017 roku / The Bibliog... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Serbii w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Serbia in 2017.
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This text deals with the anthologies of Serbian contemporary and newest poetry, which appeared in... more This text deals with the anthologies of Serbian contemporary and newest poetry, which appeared in Poland in the last twenty-eight years. Four publications by four different authors and translators present the wealth of Serbian poetry composed by several generations of poets. Each of the anthologies presents a different image of Serbian poetry, thus showing its great diversity. Thanks to these publications, many names appeared in Poland for the first, yet not the last, time-as shown in the subsequent "Bibliographies" printed in the "Translation of Slavic Literatures".
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury słowackiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibli... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury słowackiej, które ukazały się w Polsce w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Slovak literature which were translated in Poland in 2017
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Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Słowacji w 2017 roku / The Bibli... more Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej, które ukazały się w Słowacji w 2017 roku / The Bibliography of translations of Polish literature which were translated in Slovakia in 2017.
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This text deals with the anthologies of Serbian contemporary and newest poetry, which appeared in... more This text deals with the anthologies of Serbian contemporary and newest poetry, which appeared in Poland in the last twenty-eight years. Four publications by four different authors and translators present the wealth of Serbian poetry composed by several generations of poets. Each of the anthologies presents a different image of Serbian poetry, thus showing its great diversity. Thanks to these publications, many names appeared in Poland for the first, yet not the last, time - as shown in the subsequent "Bibliographies" printed in the "Translations of Slavic literatures".
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
Tom 9. część 2 czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich” poświęcony jest szeroko rozumianej c... more Tom 9. część 2 czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich” poświęcony jest szeroko rozumianej celowości przekładu i stanowi kontynuację rozważań podjętych w poprzednim numerze czasopisma. W zebranych w nim rozprawach podjęto refleksję nad problemem sprawczości aktorów translacji (tłumaczy i autorów), roli instytucji w procesie przekładu, kwestii recepcji dzieł tłumaczonych oraz celowości tłumaczenia w kontekście badań nad regionalizmem i wielokulturowością.
Tom podzielony został na trzy części problemowe. Pierwsza jest poświęcona instytucjonalnemu i recepcyjnemu wymiarowi przekładu (Anna Majkiewicz, Anita Gostomska, Regina Solová). Druga część gromadzi artykuły poświęcone dwóm przenikającym się kompleksom problemowym — zjawiskom regionalizmu i wielokulturowości rozpatrywanym w kontekście przekładu (Karolina Pospiszil, Hanna Makurat-Snuzik, Silvija Borovnik, Jakob Altmann). Natomiast trzecia część prezentowanego tomu poświęcona jest autorowi, który na rozmaite sposoby wpływa na tekst przekładu: zostawiając w tekście oryginału ślady swojej obecności i aktywności, formułując własną „teorię translacji”, czy wreszcie samemu wchodząc w rolę tłumacza (Wojciech Soliński, Joanna Derdowska, Aleksander Gomola, Amela Ljevo-Ovčina).
Autorami zamieszczonych w tomie artykułów są badacze przekładu z Polski i zagranicy, a teksty dotyczą zarówno przekładów literatur słowiańskich, jak i niesłowiańskich w ramach rozmaitych języków i etnolektów (angielski, bośniacki, chorwacki, czeski, kaszubski, niemiecki, polski, rosyjski, śląski).
Tom adresowany jest do literaturoznawców, przekładoznawców oraz komparatystów (naukowców, krytyków, studentów).
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
This article attempts to answer the question: why the Polish translation of a novel by Elfriede J... more This article attempts to answer the question: why the Polish translation of a novel by Elfriede Jelinek The Children of the Dead (Die Kinder der Toten) did not stir any debate in the circles of literary criticism in Poland. While analysing the actions carried out as a part of the W.A.B.’s (a Warsaw-based publishing house) strategy to advance the publication process and to popularize Jelinek’s oeuvre, we may notice that they actually confirm the publisher’s endeavour to balance economic and symbolic capital (Bourdieu). It allows us to reconstruct the “marketing” aims of the translation in question. Yet both the cognitive and pragmatic facet of the Austrian Nobel Laureate’s Polish translation remain to be reconstructed by the readers.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
In this paper, I would like to present the story of two Polish 20th century translations of Osman... more In this paper, I would like to present the story of two Polish 20th century translations of Osman by baroque poet Ivan Gundulić. In the production process of the translation there were involved three main actors: Croatian initiator of the whole process, Julije Benešić, and the two translators, Czesław Jastrzębiec-Kozłowski and Jerzy Pogonowski.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
The monthly Poland: Illustrated Magazine was published (with an interruption) from 1954 to 1999. ... more The monthly Poland: Illustrated Magazine was published (with an interruption) from 1954 to 1999. In the period under analysis (1954—1956), apart from its Polish version, the magazine was also published in English, French, Spanish, German, and Russian. The periodical was a product of the export circulation of cultural goods, the aim of which was to export translations of texts published in the country and those specifically intended for foreign readers. The initial task of the monthly was to shape the image of socialist Poland abroad. Through an analysis of texts intended for export, we examine how the monthly was used for propaganda purposes in the years making to the end of Stalinism and the beginning of “the thaw” in Poland.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
Existence of Upper-Silesian ethic minority has been confirmed by two national censuses carried ou... more Existence of Upper-Silesian ethic minority has been confirmed by two national censuses carried out in the years 2002 and 2011. It is also the largest minority residing in the territory of the Republic of Poland. However, the Polish state does not recognize the existence of Upper Silesians in legal terms. At the same time, for Upper Silesians themselves the struggle for recognition of their culture, language and community is a serious matter. In the present article the author discusses the role of creating and strengthening Upper-Silesian community played by culture, especially by literature and literary translation.
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The bibliography includes translations into the Silesian language made both in the standard scrip... more The bibliography includes translations into the Silesian language made both in the standard script as well as in the non-standard one. The starting point for translations into the contemporary Silesian may be dated back to 2002. Since then, there have been irregularly published, usually in the form of collections, translations of various literary genres (with a preponderance of poetic forms) from dozen or so world languages, such as: Greek, Latin, French, German, Polish, Mandarin Chinese, English, Welsh, Russian, or the Upper Sorbian. No single translation from Silesian into other language is included, since heretofore no such a translation has been made.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
The topic of the article is an attempt to answer the question: Why are translations into Kashubia... more The topic of the article is an attempt to answer the question: Why are
translations into Kashubian made? The analysis draws upon the distinction between weak and strong languages. Translations into regional language are considered as a symbolic phenomenon; which is to contribute to the preservation of regional identity and the development of minority language and culture.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
| Slovenian literature in austria represents a case of multiculturality, but most of the time, bi... more | Slovenian literature in austria represents a case of multiculturality, but most of the time, biculturality and interculturality. The researchers claim that this type of literature belongs to Slovenian as well as to contemporary austria nor german literature. it discusses and linguistically reflects on both cultural-historical environments. The literary translations show that the Slovenian literature in austria has a double, Slovenian-german identity.
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This article deals with cognitive aspects of artistic translation based on the example of transla... more This article deals with cognitive aspects of artistic translation based on the example of translations of Herta müller's oeuvre into Polish and czech. The reader of Herta müller's novels in translation seeks to get to know / acquaint onself with otherness in / through translation, which will be familiar to him or her in a manner consistent with the idiomaticity of the source language. cognitive values are especially present in the topic offered by Herta müller, that is, what living in a communist dictatorship means: constant fear of the secret police, reporting to authorities, individual incapacitation, censorship, thus-topics known to czech and Polish readers from their own history.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
The object of the analysis is the so-called Szczecin episode in its many variants. The episode pl... more The object of the analysis is the so-called Szczecin episode in its many variants. The episode plays a significant role in interpreting the novel Too Loud a Solitude, the czech version of which is a source text for a number of foreign translations. as such, the episode creates space for specific translation operations that are possible in some languages (e.g. Polish and german), while impossible in other.
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This article attempts to give literary translations into non-native languages not only permission... more This article attempts to give literary translations into non-native languages not only permission and acceptance but justification and theoretical legitimacy. While referring to Stefan Themerson's postulates of semantic poetry, it explores his philosophy of language to focus on the possible independence of the translator.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
The article explores André Lefevere’s rewriting / refraction perspective in literary translation ... more The article explores André Lefevere’s rewriting / refraction perspective in literary translation on the basis of the Polish and English versions of Czesław Miłosz’s book Piesek Przydrożny (Road-side Dog). Differences between the original and its translation identified in the analysis suggest that Road-side Dog may be seen as a Lefeverian “rewriting” of the original and as such it both confirms and strengthens a unique position of Miłosz and his oeuvre in American literary system.
Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich, 2019
Literature may stand in opposition to any theory, and so, even those theories which are marked by... more Literature may stand in opposition to any theory, and so, even those theories which are marked by conspicuous theses, hardly provide readers with sufficient, compelling interpretations. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński in his Diary Written at Night assumes the reader’s vantage point. He writes of what he sees, reads, and what he can remember, but also of what is really important. In the Diary we may witness a Pole who, despite being an outstanding intermediary, does not take liberty to explain in order to elucidate new things, but merely reads and comprehends the world, approaching reality also by means of languages and cultures through which Goodness is expressed
Tom 9. część 1 czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich” poświęcony jest szeroko rozumianej c... more Tom 9. część 1 czasopisma „Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich” poświęcony jest szeroko rozumianej celowości przekładu. Zebrane w nim rozprawy udzielają rozmaitych tematycznie i metodologicznie odpowiedzi na sformułowane w tytule tomu pytanie „dlaczego tłumaczymy?”, prezentując praktyczny, teoretyczny i metateoretyczny wymiar refleksji nad translacją.
Autorami zamieszczonych w tomie artykułów są badacze przekładu z Polski i zagranicy, a teksty dotyczą zarówno przekładów literatur słowiańskich, jak i niesłowiańskich w ramach rozmaitych języków (angielski, chorwacki, czeski, francuski, niemiecki, polski, rosyjski, słowacki, słoweński, ukraiński, włoski).
Tom podzielony został na cztery części problemowe. Pierwsza przedstawia tłumaczenie jako działanie ludyczne, ujmując je jako wyzwanie, zabawę, grę (Bożena Tokarz, Olga Płaszczewska, Monika Gawlak). Druga część poświęcona jest eksperymentom translatorycznym (Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Katarzyna Majdzik, Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż), natomiast trzecia przedstawia tłumaczy w roli przedstawicieli (ambasadorów i legislatorów według formuły Jerzego Jarniewicza) kultury oryginału (Marta Skwara, Lucyna Spyrka, Marta Buczek, Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik, Tea Rogić Musa). W ostatniej części przybliżono tematykę przekładów seryjnych (Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst, Andrij Saweneć, Leszek Małczak).
Tom adresowany jest do literaturoznawców, przekładoznawców oraz komparatystów (naukowców, krytyków, studentów).
Translation is an adventure. The desire to experience it exceeds all other translation motives. i... more Translation is an adventure. The desire to experience it exceeds all other translation motives. it is a desire of a rational, pragmatic, emotional and physical nature. Therefore, full normalisation of the principles of artistic translation constantly encounters difficulties. outside the borders of the scheme there is something called talent and empathy, understood as a cognitive-affective phenomenon. The paradigm of desire is defined by: individual weaknesses, ambition, desire to communicate, to know and experience something so far unknown, and the interaction between them in the form of surprise, dazzlement, and even shock.
In his Dire quasi la stessa cosa. esperienze di traduzione (2003) Umberto Eco discusses and comme... more In his Dire quasi la stessa cosa. esperienze di traduzione (2003) Umberto Eco discusses and comments on important dynamics of translation, its strategies and gestures , using examples drawn from his own literary works rendered in different languages. Thus, the answer to the question of the reasons we translate is formulated in relation to some subjective experiences of literary translation from and into italian exercised by the author of the essay. The category of pleasure is presented as a significative factor that prompts us to translate.
The manner of functioning of South Slavic literature translators in the social field is presented... more The manner of functioning of South Slavic literature translators in the social field is presented in the article as a case of "multiplied social participation", participation in the "game", which they treat as an incentive for cultural, intellectual and moral development in the individual and social dimension. Methodological considerations on the translation presented in the article are based on the concepts of Barnard Lahire, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roger Caillois.
This article addresses meta-theoretical issues. its core concern is to find a coherent conceptual... more This article addresses meta-theoretical issues. its core concern is to find a coherent conceptual language and an integrated research perspective which would allow to describe various experimental forms of artistic expression claiming the name of "translation". Particular attention is paid to those literary and non-literary artistic experiments which obligatorily activate the interpretive context of translation proper and therefore require translational analytical tools. The methodological framework for research is provided by the ongoing "outward turn" in western european "post-translation studies".
The article presents case study of a creative practice-based project in which the experimental co... more The article presents case study of a creative practice-based project in
which the experimental conceptual book Paint the Rock by Shiv Kotecha was translated into Polish using a conceptual translation strategy. The original is an unconventional “coloring book” that invites the reader to paint American male celebrities from memory. The Polish translation, Namaluj Popka by Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki, remakes
the original experiment, replacing these global household names with figures from the Polish local popular imaginary in a ludic localization. The authors describe the context of the original literary work, the translation process, the new context for reception in Poland, with a special focus on the role of the translator as the ambassador of new trends in literature and the creative and critical potential of conceptual writing and translation strategies.
The article discusses the experimental translation of the classic of children’s literature — Pino... more The article discusses the experimental translation of the classic of children’s literature — Pinocchio (La storia di un burattino) by Carlo Collodi — from Italian into an artificially created language of the emoji signs. The translation was dicussed in the context of other translations of literature into emoji sings and experimental translation in general. This originally new-media translation illustrates the cultural transformations of modernity and can be understood as an expression of the iconic (visual) and performative
turn in the humanities.
![Research paper thumbnail of TSL Issue: 9.1/2018; Autorka i tłumaczka: dwie pełnoprawne postacie? O przekładzie feministycznym w Kanadzie na przykładzie Lettres d’une autre Lise Gauvin i „przekładu w rodzaju żeńskim” Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood / Author and Translator: Two Full-Fledged Characters? […]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/58032048/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Among many translation activities characteristic for Canada, a “feminine translation”, meaning a... more Among many translation activities characteristic for Canada, a “feminine translation”, meaning an act of re-creation, is particularly worth mentioning. One of its representatives is Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, a translator of the texts of Quebec feminists, including Lise Gauvin’s Lettres d’une autre (1984) translated into English in 1989 (Letters from an Other). De Lotbinière-Harwood’s translation caused controversy, as — according to the critics — she explained to much to a reader, inserted too many footnotes and feminized the text more than the original. The translation activity of de Lotbnière-Harwood proves how, by using the creative approach to translation, the act of translation itself becomes visible, and the feminization of the target text creates a space for female expression also in a real world.
The paper is devoted to the reciprocal connections among three "meta-texts": translation, comment... more The paper is devoted to the reciprocal connections among three "meta-texts": translation, commentary, and interpretation. On the basis of Antoine Berman's theoretical assumptions i demonstrate how these three "reformulations" are intertwined in order to analyze chosen pieces of Polish poetry in english translation. My aim is to explore various roles which translation, commentary and interpretation can play in presenting Polish literature to foreign readers.
Based on J. Jarniewicz’s concept of two types of translator’s attitude: legislator and ambassador... more Based on J. Jarniewicz’s concept of two types of translator’s attitude:
legislator and ambassador, the article concentrates on the reasons behind the oldest Polish translations of Slovak literature: a folk song, part of J. Rostworowski’s novel Zamek na Czorsztynie, a novel by J. Kalinčiak Reštavrácia translated by P. Stalmach and a drama Matka by J. Gregor Tajovský translated by F. Gwiżdż, showing the circumstances of their appearance and the attitudes of their translators.
![Research paper thumbnail of TSL Issue: 9.1/2018; Słowacka proza naturyzmu w polskich przekładach — strategie wyboru i translacji w zmieniającej się perspektywie kulturowej drugiej połowy XX wieku/Slovak Naturalist Prose in Polish Translations — Strategies for Selection and Translation in the Changing Cultural Perspective[...]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/58033941/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](The author of the article analyses Polish translations of the Slovak naturalist prose which is a ... more The author of the article analyses Polish translations of the Slovak
naturalist prose which is a very interesting phenomenon at the primary horizon and appears to be the most frequently translated into Polish. The author concentrates on the representative translations, strategies for selection and strategies for translation of the naturalism in the changing cultural perspective of the second half of the twentieth century. Historical and cultural situation, historical distance between the originals and their translations has the biggest influence for the selection of the texts but also for the strategies the translators choose during the process of translation. In the perspective of cultural and literature turn in Poland in 1956, the Slovak naturalist prose had the chance to appear in the second horizon but it did not affect recipients and did not have the possibility to impact the development of the receiving literature. The author of the article tries to answer the question why it did not happen.
In the article we pay special attention to the presence of czech female writing in Poland after 1... more In the article we pay special attention to the presence of czech female writing in Poland after 1989. in the latest czech literature, women are becoming more and more significant. in recent years, books by czech female writers, particularly of a young generation, have been translated. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of field, capital and habitus, the article is concerned with the role of a translator as an active agent in literary communication.
During his entire work in philology Julije Benešić had systematically translated two types of tex... more During his entire work in philology Julije Benešić had systematically
translated two types of texts: masterpieces of canonical Polish authors, which he considered to be his most important work as an author and as a cultural mediator, however he also translated a series of shorter works of authors who were not famous in Croatia, which he undertook out of his polonophilic tendencies. In his work as a translator, Polish Lyricism, a chrestomathy spanning five centuries of Polish literature, holds a special place. In the article we will try to come to a conclusion to what extent were Benešić’s choice as a translator and his work as a historian successful, i.e. did they correspond with topics important to the entire Croatian literary and social environment of his, interwar, period, as well as our own period.
Literary works tend to be amongst the most often translated texts. A perfect example is Mikhail B... more Literary works tend to be amongst the most often translated texts. A perfect example is Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita: over the previous two years (2016-2017) three new translations thereof into Polish appeared, one of them being a translation by Leokadia, Grzegorz, and Igor Przebinda. In this paper, the main reasons for the publication of this new, "family" translation were discussed. The question about the need for makeing new translations was accompanied by other questions: how are such texts translated what strategies are used by the translator?, to what extent does he or she take account of the assumed expectations of contemporary readers? in the presentation, two research perspectives were proposed. The first of them is the translator's viewpoint, for whom the newly done translation is a domesticated translation. The other perspective, the researcher's one, consist in analyzing the translated text itself, in particular with regard to the applied translation strategies (exoticization vs. adaptation), indicating the differences between the latest translation and the previous ones (first by Irena Lewandowska and Witold Dąbrowski, and second by Andrzej Drawicz). The analysis of the translated text
along with the accompanying paratexts in the form of numerous footnotes leads one to a conclusion that exoticization is a dominant strategy.
The paper focuses on the issue of retranslation perceived as a significant aspect of contemporary... more The paper focuses on the issue of retranslation perceived as a significant aspect of contemporary practice of literary translation into Ukrainian, exemplified by the cases of the retranslation of short stories by Bruno Schulz and Tadeusz Konwicki's Minor Apocalypse. The emergence of new translations within a short time encourages questions about the ambitions that drove translators and publishers to present new translations of the previously translated literary works, as well as about the strategies used by translators.
The object of the analysis in this article is one of the Polish translations of historical traged... more The object of the analysis in this article is one of the Polish translations
of historical tragedy of Theodor Körner entitled Zriny. The German author’s piece has been at least six times translated into Polish language and was — especially in the second part of the 19th century, after the collapse of January Uprising — very popular. The reason of the popularity was his subversion. Through Zriny it was possible to talk about a struggle for freedom — the theme forbidden by Russian censorship. Historical piece written by a foreign author, which talks about the struggle for freedom and for defence of the homeland, the struggle lead by someone else, in other time and place, became a medium for manifesting of patriotic feelings. This function of Polish Zriny confirms his interpretation in critics and one of the translations which was written by Ludwik Jenike in Russian occupation zone with all subversive translation shifts made
by the translator.
Volume 8 part 1 of the magazine „Translation of Slavic Literatures” is devoted to reflection on p... more Volume 8 part 1 of the magazine „Translation of Slavic Literatures” is devoted to reflection on paratexts accompanying translations of Slavonic literatures, divided into five problem parts exposing another aspect of reflection on paratexts in the reception of translation, and concerns in particular literatures: American and Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, but also German.
This paper deals primarily with the poetry of Zdravko Malić, one of the most prominent Croatian P... more This paper deals primarily with the poetry of Zdravko Malić, one of the most prominent Croatian Polonists of the 20th century, founder of Croatian Polonistics as a university, institutionalised philological discipline, and the author of a comprehensive and far‑reaching literary‑historic and translator’s body of work. Along with his literary‑scientific work and work as a translator, as a poet Malić wrote a rather small but, in the composition of the whole of his interests, an indicative poetic contribution, which mirrors his research topics and the depth of their perception. As a Polonist, he covered his own poetic practice with a web of intertextual and citation points that helped him to refer to a foreign culture, Polish, as the starting point of his erudition. As a prolegomenon to the insight into his poetic collection, we will give a brief overview of Malić’s body of work and his activities, which supplements his biography as a Polonist.
ABSTRACT | Translational literature in Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1950’s was influenced ... more ABSTRACT | Translational literature in Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1950’s was
influenced by the contemporary re-evaluation of national literature canon. The authors
of introductions to the translations were required to be ideologically consistent. The
promotion of Czech literature in Poland and of Polish literature in Czechoslovakia was
conducted in a selective fashion that determined certain interpretations and values. The
introductions were supposed to orientate the readers to a particular interpretation of
a given translation, filtered by their awareness of doctrinal intertext.
ABSTRACT | The conspiracy mission of Marin Držić is being analyzed in the context of sovereignty ... more ABSTRACT | The conspiracy mission of Marin Držić is being analyzed in the context of sovereignty and political state of exception, from Schmitt to Agamben, as well as in the light of recent historical interpretations, from Jeličić and Pupačić to Tatarin and Kunčević. Držić's letters to Cosimo I. and Francesco Medici are thus situated in the context of renaissance diplomatic thought. Based on some possibilities in their croatian stylizations (Čale vs. Batistić), their political and theological semantics is revised.
ABSTRACT | This article defines the relationship between the croatian author of the Romantic peri... more ABSTRACT | This article defines the relationship between the croatian author of the Romantic period Medo Pucić and Adam Mickiewicz through the analysis of Pucić's biography and a biographical article he wrote for an italian literary journal La Favilla along with a translation of an excerpt from Forefathers' Eve. The relationship between the two poets is incorporated into the wider context of the croatian-Polish literary connections of the first half of the 19th century.
ABSTRACT | The main goal of the article is to analyse the translator’s footnotes in the Polish ... more ABSTRACT | The main goal of the article is to analyse the translator’s footnotes in the Polish translation of the Drago Jančar’s essays. There are different opinions about footnotes. Some some people consider them a discredit to the translator, while others think them a sign of erudition. Footnotes should help the reader of the target culture to understand the original text culture. it is important to create footnotes cautiously.
ABSTRACT | The aim of this article is to present different strategies and types of translator's n... more ABSTRACT | The aim of this article is to present different strategies and types of translator's notes used in the translations of Polish novels Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną (White and Red in the UK or Snow White and Russian Red in the US) by Dorota Masłowska, Lubiewo (Lovetown) by Michał Witkowski and Gnój (Muck) by Wojciech Kuczok. in the first part of the paper, the authors will concentrate on the place of footnotes in the structure of text and their symbolic meaning. moreover, a closer investigation of semantics of translators' comments will follow.
ABSTRACT | The article presents an analysis of the non-linguistic translator's notes in four tran... more ABSTRACT | The article presents an analysis of the non-linguistic translator's notes in four translations of the novella Balada o trobenti in oblaku (The Ballad of the Trumpet and the Cloud) by a Slovenian writer, Ciril Kosmač. The translator's notes are analysed with regard to their content (functions) and typology (partly also formal features). The analysis reveals a clear difference in the use of this translation technique in the selected translations, resulting also, to a certain degree, from the distance between the source and target cultures.
ABSTRACT | The article concerns the issue of intensification in Polish and Slovak reviews of Pavo... more ABSTRACT | The article concerns the issue of intensification in Polish and Slovak reviews of Pavol Rankov's prose. The review, as a form accompanying the main text, is treated as paratext. The linguistic category of intensification can be expressed in the text by the variety of linguistic means: derivational, morphological, lexical, and stylistic. These structures, with the collateral "intensifiers", were cited and analysed in this study.
ABSTRACT | This article deals with the relevance of paratexts in translation based on the example... more ABSTRACT | This article deals with the relevance of paratexts in translation based on the example of the afterword in the Czech translation of Herta Müller's novel Herztier [The Land of Green Plums], titled Srdce bestie and written by Radka Denemarková, a writer and translator famous not only in her homeland. Therefore, he analyses the different functions of the afterword, especially as a commentary on the translator's choices and, consequently, as an insight into the worldview inscribed into the original language. A particular interest is paid to the translator who, in view of her literary predispositions that are clearly visible not only in the afterword, could be described as the "second author".
ABSTRACT | The article discusses paratexts in Polish translations of M. Crnjanski's poetry and pr... more ABSTRACT | The article discusses paratexts in Polish translations of M. Crnjanski's poetry and prose. The corpus of the article includes the Polish translations, which were published in six volumes. Various types of paratexts of the translations have been analyzed here: the translator's paratexts and the editor's paratexts, verbal and non-verbal paratexts, introductions and notes.
ABSTRACT | Milivoj Slaviček (1929—2012) is one of the croatian poets that are most often translat... more ABSTRACT | Milivoj Slaviček (1929—2012) is one of the croatian poets that are most often translated into Polish. Polish translations of his poems are accompanied by paratexts (elements that function around a specific text: titles, prefaces, afterwords, footnotes, autobiographical notes, reviews, etc.). Here, we shall take a closer look on two Slaviček's poems in both the original version and in Polish translation together with the accompanying paratexts, which will allow us to determine patterns in this regard within the series of translations.
ABSTRACT | This article talks about short autobiographical stories in the collection Book of My L... more ABSTRACT | This article talks about short autobiographical stories in the collection Book of My Lives by aleksandar Hemon. What makes this book a piece of art, how it works translated into Bosnian from English, when it was written in English with Bosnian background and cultural experience, as well as how it translates into Polish constitutes the basis for this article. Analyzing how publishers use titles, notes on the author, and other paratextual elements here is first step in the understanding how Hemon creates his work from Bosnian and american experiences and memories.
ABSTRACT | The article deals with the role of comment (as a kind of paratext), which gains a part... more ABSTRACT | The article deals with the role of comment (as a kind of paratext), which gains a particular status in translation, becoming an additional medium between the author/translator /editor and the primary text and the secondary recipient as well as their cultural universe. This seems important because the translated text is to function in a new environment, a new cultural space; it is supposed to find its way to a new audience, and thus this type of expressions "support" translation in its most important role of a link in cross-cultural communication.
ABSTRACT | The article discusses the status and function of paratext based on the series of trans... more ABSTRACT | The article discusses the status and function of paratext based on the series of translations titled Biblioteka duchowości europejskiej (Library of European Spirituality). The series itself has been initiated by the Polish Paleo-Slavic community and was published more than ten years ago. The article's authoress refers to the definition and classification of paratext elaborated on by gérard genette, which has been applied to considerations over translation studies for a long time and served as the basis for distinguishing strategies selected by translators as well as identifying the reception space. In the discussion on paratext, the role of the author of a translation is also taken into account, especially the issue of his or her presence, namely: the translator’s visibility, intentionality, and subjectivity revealed by his or her choices.
ABSTRACT | approximately 75% of book publications of Polish literature in Slovenian in the years ... more ABSTRACT | approximately 75% of book publications of Polish literature in Slovenian in the years 1987—2014 include an afterword written by the translator, who expresses in it his concept of translation as a linked text. Slovenian translators place the original in the center of the reflection on translation, attributing the translation a cognitive, mediating and sometimes artistically inspirational function. This testifies to the translators' responsibility for the reception of the translated literature, and to their historical and literary integrity, as well as to the publishers' diligence.
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2016). T. 8. Cz. 2. Red. Leszek Małczak. Katowice... more Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2016). T. 8. Cz. 2. Red. Leszek Małczak. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2017, 215 [1] s. – W Bibliografii przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2016) odnotowano tłumaczenia, które ukazały się w roku 2016. / In the Bibliography of translations of Slavic literatures (2016), translations which appeared in 2016 were recorded and some of them commented.
ABSTRACT | The aim of the article is the synthetic review of Miljenko Jergović's presence in Pola... more ABSTRACT | The aim of the article is the synthetic review of Miljenko Jergović's presence in Poland: Polish translations of his literary works and writer's connections with Poland. In this regard, the paper concentrates on " the most Polish " of his books, the novel entitled Wilimowski. There are shown, among others, the sources of Jergović's interest in Poland, circumstances of Wilimowski's several editions and reception of the novel in Poland.
ABSTRACT | The article deals with Croatian reception of works by Witold Gombrowicz, focusing prim... more ABSTRACT | The article deals with Croatian reception of works by Witold Gombrowicz, focusing primarily on the period after the year 2000, during which most of translations of this author into Croatian have been published. The author investigates the impact that literary texts and their paratexts made on the presentation, interpretation, and contextualization of Gombrowicz's work in the receiving culture.
ABSTRACT | There were only six instances of literary translation from Polish into Macedonian in 2... more ABSTRACT | There were only six instances of literary translation from Polish into Macedonian in 2016. Some of them represent the genre of Polish literary reportage, but all of them represent a strong connection to the real facts of life. It seems that the choice is made based on the criteria imposed by the foundations partially commissioning the translation, but also shifting political situation in the country and the curiosity of the foreign reality. Translation problems appear to be of different nature, depending on the style of the author.
ABSTRACT | The author of the article characterizes Slovak literature translated into Polish in 20... more ABSTRACT | The author of the article characterizes Slovak literature translated into Polish in 2016. She analyzes in detail several translations of Slovak prose: Piata loď by monika Kompaníková (in the Polish version Piąta łódź), Informácia by Maroš Krajňák (Informacja) and Zu by Silvster Lavrík (Zu). Translations of Slovak prose into Polish are also discussed and interpreted by the author in anthologies Portrety z bliska and Tu i teraz including the prose of Radovan Brenkus, Ľudovít Petraško, Peter Karpinský, Martin Vlado and women writers from the associations aspekt and Femina, among others Maria Bátorová, Jana Bodnárová, Etela Farkašová, Jana Juráňová, Helena Dvořáková, Rút Lichnerová, and Eva Maliti Fraňová. The author of the article is interested in reception of Slovak contemporary literature in the secondary (receiving) horizon.
ABSTRACT | This article deals with the Slovak translations of poems by Wisława Szymborska. in 201... more ABSTRACT | This article deals with the Slovak translations of poems by Wisława Szymborska. in 2016 two collections of her poems were published in the Slovak language. The author of this paper summarized all translations of W. Szymborska's poems into the Slovak language published in literary magazines as well as in a book form since 1952. Since some poems were translated more than once by different translators, those various translations of three poems are compared and analyzed in the article as well.
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Temat niniejszego tomu wynika z chęci zaprezentowania panoramy teoretycznej i historycznej w zakr... more Temat niniejszego tomu wynika z chęci zaprezentowania panoramy teoretycznej i historycznej w zakresie dyscypliny, jak również konkretnych praktyk translatorskich. Spojrzenie z tych dwóch perspektyw na jednostkowe rozwiązania tłumaczy lepiej przedstawia ich rolę jako pośredników (a czasem inicjatorów stylu i myślenia), a także ich decyzje oraz funkcje i pragmatyczność przekładu.
The extensive translation work of Tone Pretnar includes within it the fourteen sonnets of Jan Nep... more The extensive translation work of Tone Pretnar includes within it the fourteen sonnets of Jan Nepomucen Kamiński, an important organiser of the Polish theatre and cultural life in Lvov in the first half of the nineteenth century. The sonnets, which were written in 1827, were rejected by critics of the period, and were not afforded any greater attention by later literary historians. According to his own account, Pretnar decided to undertake the translation of these works due to the author’s close links with Matija Čop, an important figure in the intellectual and artistic scene of that time. While Kamiński’s works were criticised for their linguistic and compositional failings, Pretnar’s translations are linguistically pure and flow with inherent beauty. Attention is often focused on those elements within them that are reminiscent of Prešeren — namely quotations and allusions to the poetic language of the greatest Slovene romantic poet, France Prešeren. With these elements, the translator succeeded in firmly placing his translation in a time, interest in which (apart from some subsequent attempts to revitalise interest) remained, like the sonnets themselves, restricted and confined. Nor can it be ruled out (even though for the reader who is unaware of the literary and historical background it may not be immediately apparent) that those elements that are reminiscent of Prešeren also in fact represent the translator’s ingenious solution to the problem as to how best realise in translation the very elements which some critics had seen (or wanted to see) in the original: namely, a lyric parody of the greatest Polish poet of that period, Adam Mickiewicz.
Croatian literature translated into Slovak consists of a relevant selection of Croat authors for ... more Croatian literature translated into Slovak consists of a relevant selection of Croat authors for kids and youth dating from the 19th century to the present, such as I. Brlićová‑Mažuranićová, V. Nazor, M. Lovrak, I. Kušan, Lj. Bauer, J. Horvat, H. Hitrec, Đ. Zrakić, J. Cvenić, S. Tomaš, A. Gardaš, Z. Balog. Slovak translations are published in Slovakia, but also in the Serbian Vojvodina. The most significant translators focusing on the translation of juvenile literature are Zlatko Klátik, Juraj Tušiak, Andrej Vrbacký, Rudo Brtáň, Peter Čačko, Michal Nadubinský, Ján Jankovič and others. Translators were influenced in their selection of Croatian authors by their reputation but also by the translators‘ personal interest in the literature.
Despite the over one hundred years long popularity of Ivana Brlić‑Mažuranić in Croatia, her colle... more Despite the over one hundred years long popularity of Ivana Brlić‑Mažuranić in Croatia, her collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago remains almost absent in Poland. An attempt to determine the reasons for this absence involves the reconstruction of the circumstances of its Polish translations and the outline of the translators’ silhouettes, which leads to Wanda Pogonowska, who was a visual artist and a painter by education and who should be considered as the first Polish translator of the famous Croatian tales. Although she took on the translation twice (in the 1930s and 1950s) and has remained the only person who translated the entire collection into Polish, the final effect of her translation efforts, due to the problems with its publication, is still unknown, and the memory of Wanda Pogonowska is slowly fading away. Wiktor Bazielich was also an amateur translator but who made up for his lack of professionalism with his extraordinary perseverance and managed to publish in the interwar press his own translation of one fairy tale from the Brlić‑Mažuranić’ collection. The same tale about the fisherman Palunko was translated again forty years later by Magdalena Petryńska (unaware of the existence of the earlier Polish version), who, with her considerable achievements, in contrast to the pre‑war translators of Brlić‑Mažuranić, proudly represents the circle of the most outstanding contemporary Polish translators of South Slavic prose. Existing translations show that the translators adopted extremely different translation strategies. Wiktor Bazielich’s attitude, which could result from his intention of introducing Polish recipients to the realities of South Slavic culture or from the translator’s skills, is close to formal equivalence; while the procedure of Magdalena Petryńska was dictated by a concern for the communication comfort of the story’s recipients — children and can be described as functional equivalence.
This article deals with the topic of German compound words as culturally marked word‑formation un... more This article deals with the topic of German compound words as culturally marked word‑formation units and their translation into Polish, based on the example of the translation of Herta Müller’s novel Herztier (The Land of Green Plums). Firstly, the author specifies compound words as such — in German and Polish, as well as their differing functions and types. Under focus especially are the divergences in the area of the terms used in each language (cf. Zusammenrückung vs. zestawienie and zrost). In the beginning of the practical part, which is dedicated to an analysis of the translation into Polish, the attention of the reader is directed to the potentially problematic characteristics of Herta Müller’s prose, which can appear during the process of translation. In this regard, we can state: that the typical German compound words cannot be translated into Polish without semantic displacements, for the translation it is necessary to use partly uni‑ and partly multi‑verbated constructions. However, this results in the loss of an important degree of imagery. Many of these compound words are culturally marked collocations, e.g. Patentstrümpfe or Essenskarte, which cannot be translated faithfully into Polish. Nevertheless, one can say that the translator has found satisfactory translational solutions, which we can partially explain as parallels between the cultural experiences of Herta Müller (her life in the Romanian People’s Republic) and of the translator, Alicja Buras (raised in the Polish People’s Republic). All in all, we can recognise in the Polish translation the clear effort to find the golden mean between the so‑called covert translation and overt translation, with the second one dominating.
In 2011, the publication house Wallstein published the novel by the Carinthian Slovene Author, Ma... more In 2011, the publication house Wallstein published the novel by the Carinthian Slovene Author, Maja Haderlap, which attracted a lot of attention. Firstly, the novel is special because it tells a somewhat unknown and oftentimes concealed tale about the agony of the Carinthian Slovenes during the Second World War. This narrative is being revived by the author on the basis of her grandmother’s narration and other relatives, who were deported to Nazi concentration camps during the war because they were suspected of collaboration with the partisans. Secondly, this novel is special because of its emphasis on a woman’s war story which is usually marginalized in historical accounts. The third peculiarity of this novel is demonstrated by the fact that the novel was written by a female Slovene author in the German language. The author substantiated her writing on the rationale that the German language offered her the emotional distance and that she wanted to draw from the subject, which was not well‑recognized in the German‑speaking environment, being nearer to Austrian rather than German readers. On the basis of the autobiographical elements, she has spoken about the discrimination of the Slovenes and also about the disdain and disavowal of the Slovene language. Nevertheless, the writer, Florjan Lipuš, has labeled her novel as linguistic and national heresy in his work Enquiry for the Name (Poizvedovanje za imenom, 2013). He thought that the Slovene language on the artistic level should be taken care of by those that are gifted and creative and that writing literature in the Slovene language means its preservation. His critique of Maja Haderlap’s linguistic crossing into German is also very harsh because this is not the only such case of writers of the younger or middle‑aged generation of Carinthian Slovenians writing in German. Maja Haderlap’s novel was translated into Slovene by Štefan Vevar, who is himself of Carinthian origin. This is especially important because the translator has demonstrated not only the role of the Slovene language in this novel but also has included in his innovative translation some elements of the Carinthian dialect, which is the mother tongue of the author and her literary characters. With these translation solutions, Vevar preserved the original’s linguistic duality and also demonstrated that this novel, which was written in German, is also Slovene. However, the author of this novel belongs to the group of writers with a double, interculturally designated identity.
In this paper I have analyzed some translatological questions in the field of translating old lit... more In this paper I have analyzed some translatological questions in the field of translating old literature, on the basis of selected fragments from the works of Jan Kochanowski and from the essay of Czesław Miłosz that examines some translatological problems. An analysis of the cited fragments and their translations shows that the translation of Renaissance literature should also opt for knowledge of contemporary poetics and rhetorical rules, which formed a part of the legacy from the literature of the ancient period. In addition, as Miłosz postulates in his essay, it seems that in the process of a translation of great significance is the empathy of the translator himself with the persona of a given author. Literary interpretation and the correct understanding of old literature is a crucial factor and the starting point in the translation process. Such an interpretation is based on a thorough knowledge of the epoch and the culture of the Renaissance period, within which the concrete work was written.
The article deals with the topic of translator’s choices while investigating the case of the tran... more The article deals with the topic of translator’s choices while investigating the case of the translation of Drago Jančar’s book, Terra incognita, translated in Poland by Joanna Pomorska. This article is based on the theory of tropes by Hayden White, whose research is directly related to the historiography, and points out to the trap of objective or truly scientific history which, in fact, cannot exist. The same also applies to the essays that include some threads of history, such as Jančar’s essays concerning Slovenian history, analyzed not only in the Slovenian, but also in Yugoslavian and even European context. The image of history in his works is built on the remarkable way, where prevails the irony arising from the specific argument on the wheel of history. This unique perspective cannot be retained in the translation, where the translator must take into account a Polish reader’s limited knowledge about the Slovenian history. The author pays particular attention to illustrating the effects of translation strategies and its attitude towards the essay as a relay of history. She analyzes the translation choices on the lexical‑semantic level, and shows their impact on the perception of the text.
The paper deals with Jozef Marušiak’s translations and their reception in Slovakia. The author pr... more The paper deals with Jozef Marušiak’s translations and their reception in Slovakia. The author presents a selection of his translations from Polish into the Slovak language, which has mostly formed the picture of Polish literature in Slovakia. The author points out some specific translation strategies, as well as the cultural and literary dialogue, which the translations have led to. The article also maps the wide range of Marušiak’s translation works from the beginning up to the present. The aim of the paper is to capture how the choices and translations of one personality can enrich the receiving literature.
The author of the article focuses on the specific school of translation formulated by the well‑kn... more The author of the article focuses on the specific school of translation formulated by the well‑known Polish translator of Slovak literature, Danuta Abrahamowicz in the Slovak environment of the second half of the 20th century. The article defines all aspects of Abrahamowicz’s translatological activities. Her literary studies, critical, publishing, editorial and translation activity are examined in the article and finally, the article shows the ways in which Abrahamowicz perceived translation and the various ways of implementing it in a new horizon of reception to become a fact of the target culture.
This article shows the various translations of Vedrana Rudan who is one of the most popular Croat... more This article shows the various translations of Vedrana Rudan who is one of the most popular Croatian writers in Poland. A common view of translation says that focusing on a translation not the original is needed. That is why Polish culture, language and the reception of Croatian literature in Poland are key factors. Therefore in this article the problems with translating the Croatian language such as swearwords, sex and literary allusions into Polish have been shown.
In the article, the collection of Serbian folklore song translations, entitled Serbian Folk Songs... more In the article, the collection of Serbian folklore song translations, entitled Serbian Folk Songs, is regarded. The collection itself was prepared and published in 1853 and 1855 by Roman Zmorski. Located in the centre of consideration, it also becomes a pretext for a reflection on the essence of a literary text’s translation along with its communicational aspect and the role of the translator in the process of the fusion concerning two axiological systems, two cultural horizons — the initial one and the final one. Furthermore, the article serves to present a traditional translation in the nineteenth century: the reception of South Slavonic (Serbian) folklore poetry. The considerations dedicated to the translation theme and the translator’s role concentrate not on the philological issues themselves, but rather on the broadly comprehended intercultural phenomenon which means a process and the result of a transposition of the text from one cultural realm to the other. Besides the exposition of the translation meaning in the relational, dialogical aspect, its fundamental conditions are emphasized. They refer to the historical and cultural contexts, sources’ selection, and intentional operation on the primary text together with its translation understood as a specific sort of interpretation and communication.
The Slavic scholar Ivan Prijatelj (1875—1937), who received his university education in Vienna an... more The Slavic scholar Ivan Prijatelj (1875—1937), who received his university education in Vienna and was a contemporary and collaborator of the group of Slovene writers known as the »Slovene Modernists« (slovenska moderna), established himself primarily as an influential literary historian. Apart from that, he developed his interests in literature as an essayist and translator, being eager to become familiar with important authors and literary currents, especially modern European ones, and to make them accessible to Slovene readers. He succinctly presented the English writer, who at the time garnered attention in Eastern and in Western Europe, in the journal article Oskar Wilde (1907), which is a translation of Wilde’s aphorisms on art and on criticism. They were translated into Slovene from Polish, on the basis of Oskar Wilde. Studjum. Aforyzmy. Nowele, a book by Adolf Nowaczyński (1906), in which Wilde is dealt with in a more extensive and multi‑faceted manner. Prijatelj’s version, which is thematically homogeneous, is the only one among his translations that is not based directly on the source text. It does not always follow Nowaczyński’s translation, but is consistent with the poetics of translation sketched out by Prijatelj in the introductory chapter to his study on Pushkin in Slovene translations (1901). The study presupposes that for the literature of a small nation such as Slovenia, translation is indispensable in as far as it enables that literature to become connected to other national literatures; in actual fact, translations are considered as a means of informing and educating target readers as well as of correcting local literary standards. In order to perform these functions in a satisfactory way, a translation must preserve the original’s authenticity, while at the same time adapting to the target culture and naturally integrating into it. Accordingly, a translated text does not only bear a mark of the author’s creative genius, but, to an extent, also of that of the translator. Some minor shifts with respect to the English original are observable in Prijatelj’s and Nowaczyński’s translations, which in some points differ also from each other, and remain within the recommended middle way, which makes it possible for the translator to take into account the author’s intentions, while allowing himself the necessary freedom, so as to produce an effective and convincing target text.
After the clear dominance of naturalizing tendencies in the 1950s, when classic translations were... more After the clear dominance of naturalizing tendencies in the 1950s, when classic translations were preponderant, a predominance of up‑dated translations appeared. This was introduced by Feldek’s manifestation appearance in Mladá tvorba at the end of the 1950s and throughout the 1960s by the dominance of modern literature. This alternation of dominant tendencies is by no means mechanical, but it is also applicable in hindsight. Whereas in the period of Realism, naturalization tendencies (Kukučín, Hviezdoslav) seem dominant, the period of Modernism foregrounds those of exotization (Roy, Krasko). However, in the inter‑war period, exotization took turns with naturalization (Jesenský, Jesenská, Rázusová‑Martáková). J. Felix praises these translations although with respect to historization and modernization he is in favor of so‑called ‘vivification’, i.e. adapting translation to the epoch in which it originated, as well as the reader. Furthermore, Surrealists in the period of the Second World War and shortly before it seem to prefer modernization and exotization besides naturalizing translations. Thus, they bridge the period of naturalization from the 1950s to the 1960s when they became closer with the starting generation of Concretists. Again, after 1968 modernization was not pushed to the background mechanically; prime translations are still being modernized or up‑dated. After 1989, gradually after a wave of exotization, especially Americanization (shortly after the Revolution), attenuation of the modernizing and exoticizing methods in supreme translations, those of poems, in particular, may be observed, in contrast to what was referred to by Felix as vivification on a temporal axis and creolization, i.e. mixing of cultures, by Popovič. This is called an attenuated or classicist translation method; translation fulfils its basic role, it approximates to the style of a translated author and is at his service.
In Poland, Slovak translatological thought is mainly associated with the concepts of Anton Popovi... more In Poland, Slovak translatological thought is mainly associated with the concepts of Anton Popovič and his school of translation. The article presents an overview of the history of the development of translation and translation studies in Slovakia, and then discusses the poet Lubomír Feldek’s concept based on his practical experiences as an interpreter and critic of translation. Feldek, like Popovič treats translation as a form of communication, emphasizing a focus on the issues of reception. He presented his conception in the book Z reči do reči (1977), which was met with great interest by Slovak theoreticians of translation. The article presents the polemical and critical opinions and acceptance and praise which were formulated at the time of the publication of the Feldek’s book, and the comments subsequent to the most recent controversy, which document the place of the views of the poet — translator in Slovak translatology.
The article has tried to demonstrate that the implementation of the interculturality phenomenon i... more The article has tried to demonstrate that the implementation of the interculturality phenomenon in the translation process should be considered as one of the conditions of a distinguished translation. If the translator does not integrate the so‑called ‘cultural equivalents’ in his/her translation, it occurs on the text level only, undermining and weakening its understanding with the target readership. Such a translation moreover lacks the authentic diction and turns to be prosaic and non‑poetic. The formal theory of translation should therefore finally give up its mere semantic comprehension of translation equivalence. Having evaluated this problem in a complex way, one would find the way out of its schizoid position between widely shedding light on the phenomenon of interculturality in theory, yet facing it with embarrassment and discomfort when evaluating translation practice.
The diversity of Polish voices about translation draws attention to the fundamental problems of t... more The diversity of Polish voices about translation draws attention to the fundamental problems of translation: 1) the role of the translator in the process of linguistic and cultural transference; 2) the modeling impact of the receiving culture on the target text; 3) respect for the output work and culture in relation to word and text; 4) linguistic and cultural untranslatability; 5) the desire to create a discipline that “would tame” the complex nature of translation in theory and practice. Reflections upon these issues led to interdisciplinary and descriptivity in translation studies. Currently we are dealing with the situation of the repealing of faithfulness in translation as an impossible and unnecessary task. The voices of Polish translators, among others, growing over the centuries, were confirmed by this theoretical reflection. Researchers have announced it in Polish translatory reflection. They represented different methodological, phenomenological and structuralist-semiotic options (for example, Stefania Skwarczyńska and Edward Balcerzan in the years 1965—1981). In their reflections on translation, an essential role has been played by the adoption of two basic assumptions. The first one concerns the autonomy of a literary work, whereas the other one is about interpretation, that is, its full implementation in the process of reading. Within their borders, they pointed to the inevitability of the gradable identity of translation with respect to the original.
W "Przekładach Literatur Słowiańskich" t. 7, część 2: Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańsk... more W "Przekładach Literatur Słowiańskich" t. 7, część 2: Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2015) odnotowano tłumaczenia, które ukazały się w roku 2015. Zestawieniom bibliograficznym towarzyszą komentarze dotyczące przekładów i ich recepcji.
This article examines the situation and the presence of Polish literature in the Slovenian litera... more This article examines the situation and the presence of Polish literature in the Slovenian literary market in 2015. It analyzes Slovenian translators' choices concerning the selection of Polish authors, the frequency of publication, and the publishing houses and journals that deal with Polish literature.
The bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Slovenia in the year 2015
This article focuses on the dissemination of Slovenian literature in Polish by the Rafał Wojaczek... more This article focuses on the dissemination of Slovenian literature in Polish by the Rafał Wojaczek Institute in Mikołów between 2012 and 2015. The author approaches the role of publishers in promoting literatures that are viewed from the Polish perspective as marginal using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social fields. She points to the mechanisms and motivations of both the publisher and the translators, addresses issues related to graphic design, and examines the impact of paratextuality. The appreciation of non -mainstream literatures, including translations, stems from Bourdieu’s notion of illusio, a belief shared by the Institute’s staff and the team supporting the publishing process (i.e. translators) in the value of literature, translation and publishing, and their aesthetic and social impacts. The interest of the Mikołowski Institute in propagating fringe literatures, its attempts to transfer symbolic Slovenian capital into Polish and its relative autonomy in the publishing market are well worth noting.
The bibliography of translations of Slovenian literature in Poland in the year 2015
The author of this paper introduces the Dictionary of Slovak Literary Translators of the 20th Cen... more The author of this paper introduces the Dictionary of Slovak Literary Translators of the 20th Century of which Veda Publishing House published the first volume in 2015. The paper deals with the structure and contents of the dictionary and it focuses on the translators of Polish literature. The author explores seven translators who predominantly work on translations from the Polish language and she introduces their profiles — from the point of view of study, language education and profession. She also pays attention to literary critics’ reviews and defines their poetics as well. She concentrates primarily on Karol Chmel, who is one of the best -known translators of Polish literature in Slovakia, and who occupies the leading position in this field.
The bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Slovakia in the year 2015
The author of the article considers the latest translations of Slovak literature in Poland in 201... more The author of the article considers the latest translations of Slovak literature in Poland in 2015. Among very well -known and valued Slovak authors whose translations have been published recently are contemporary and modern authors of the younger generation (Pavol Rankov, Peter Krištúfek, Maroš Krajňak, Jana Beňova) and the older generation (Pavel Vilikovský, Daniela Kapitaňová). Their books were very well received by Polish recipients and it occurs that Slovak literature in Poland is read with steadily growing interest. The article concerns Polish translations of Slovak poetry as well. The survey shows a decreasing number of translations of this kind of literature. In 2015 only three small anthologies of poetry were published. In this way, Slovak poetry was represented by a few local poets (Radovan Brenkus and Pavol Hudák).
The bibliography of translations of Slovak literature in Poland in the year 2015
The text analyses the issue of Polish literature in Serbia and Serbian literature in Poland. Most... more The text analyses the issue of Polish literature in Serbia and Serbian literature in Poland. Most of the translations that appeared in Serbia in 2015 were reprints of previous editions or new, contemporized translations of works already known in the Serbian publishing market. The year 2015 saw 23 book publications (without any volume of poetry) and 17 poems in various magazines. Serbian literature was poorly represented in the discussed time — only two comics, two anthologies of poetry and 23 poems were published. Consequently, there was not a single prose publication. This is a tendency, as in 2014, not a single translation of Serbian prose in Polish publishing market appeared.
The bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Serbia in the year 2015
The bibliography of translations of Serbian literature in Poland in the year 2015
This commentary conserns the reasons and motivation for choosing particular novels to be translat... more This commentary conserns the reasons and motivation for choosing particular novels to be translated into Macedonian. A short review of their style is given, as well as the common ground with the Macedonian literature. We describe the way of the working of the publishing houses which have decided to publish Polish literature. Problems in translation turn out to be of a cultural nature, concerning the differences and, as a result, the reader is presented with the picture of contemporary Polish society, which is overwhelmed by critical thinking, but still deals with the history as a way to further develop the tradition.
The bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Macedonia in the year 2015
The bibliography of translations of Macedonian literature in Poland in the year 2015
Annotations to the bibliography of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish... more Annotations to the bibliography of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in the Czech Republic in 2015 is a summation of events in both the Polish and Czech publishing markets, connected with the publishing of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in the Czech Republic in 2015. Within the framework of annotation, the most important literary translations in this language pair were presented, pointing to the leading publishers and active translators. An evaluative review is linked to a compact outline of the development of Polish and Czech publishers that handle Polish literature in the Czech Republic and Czech literature in Poland.
The bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Czech Republic in the year 2015
The bibliography of translations of Czech literature in Poland in the year 2015
Data zgłoszenia: 6.05.2016 r. -Data recenzji i akceptacji: 16.05.2016 r. Abstract: Annotation to ... more Data zgłoszenia: 6.05.2016 r. -Data recenzji i akceptacji: 16.05.2016 r. Abstract: Annotation to bibliography of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in Czech Republic in 2015 is a summation of events on Polish and Czech publishing market, connected with publishing of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in Czech Republic in 2015. In the framework of annotation were presented the most important literary translations in this language pair, pointed leading publishers and active translators. Evaluative review is linked to compact outline of developing of Polish and Czech publishers, that handle with presentation of Polish literature in Czech Republic and Czech literature in Poland. Key words: translations of Czech literature in Poland, translations of Polish literature in the Czech Republic, translators of Czech literature in Poland, translators of Polish literature in the Czech Republic.
In this article (written in Croatian, available in Polish translation), we have tried to draw an ... more In this article (written in Croatian, available in Polish translation), we have tried to draw an image of Croatian literature in Polish culture, as well as vice versa, in the last 25 years, based on bibliographies and articles on translations in PLS. It has been concluded that, due to translators’ choices of Croatian exile literature, works perceived in the source culture as non -canon, themes related to war, Yugonostalgia and authors whose work belong to the “borderline” of a few nations, Croatian literature in Poland exists as “Balkan” literature. On the other hand, choices of Polish literature in Croatia mainly concerns classic Polish authors. Both cases draw a wider picture of national imagery — a hetero -image – in the target culture.
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
jako kontynuacja "Przekładów Literatur Słowiańskich". T. 4, część 1: Stereotypy w przekładzie art... more jako kontynuacja "Przekładów Literatur Słowiańskich". T. 4, część 1: Stereotypy w przekładzie artystycznym prezentuje tłumaczenia z kolejnych pięciu lat z literatur bułgarskiej, chorwackiej, czeskiej, macedońskiej, serbskiej, słowackiej i słoweńskiej na język polski oraz z literatury polskiej na języki wymienionych literatur. Zamieszczenie poszczególnych zestawień w jednym tomie obrazuje stopień wzajemnego zainteresowania sobą Słowian Zachodnich i Południowych. Taką perspektywę oglądu chcemy utrzymać w następnych tomach, obejmując bibliografią krótsze okresy, liczące od dwóch do pięciu lat. Mniejszy zakres czasowy opracowywanego materiału pozwala również na dokładniejsze sprawdzenie odnotowanych faktów.
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012) T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
1. Dubois Jacek: A wszystko przez faraona / I se zaradi faraonot. Prev. Aneta To d evsk a. Skopje... more 1. Dubois Jacek: A wszystko przez faraona / I se zaradi faraonot. Prev. Aneta To d evsk a. Skopje, Detska radost, 2007, 277 s. [proza]. 2. Sienkiewicz Henryk: Quo vadis?/ Quo vadis? Prev. Dona D i m it rowa. Skopje, Matica Makedonska, 2007, 637 s. 3. Tokarczuk Olga: Prawiek i inne czasy / Pravek i drugite vreminja. Prev. Lidija Ta nu š evsk a. Skopje, Makedonska Reč, 2007, 245 s. [proza]. PUBLIK ACJE KSIĄŻKOWE
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
PUBLIK ACJE KSIĄŻKOWE 1. Čolović Ivan: Balkan -teror kulture: ogledi o političkoj antropologiji /... more PUBLIK ACJE KSIĄŻKOWE 1. Čolović Ivan: Balkan -teror kulture: ogledi o političkoj antropologiji / Bałkany -terror kultury. Wybór esejów. Tłum. Magdalena Pet r y ń sk a. Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2007, 152 s. [proza]. 2. Inskrypcja na srebrnej sukience. Antologia serbskiej poezji XVIII i XIX wieku. Tłum. Maria D ą b r owsk a -Pa r t yk a. Kraków, Scriptum, 2007, 66 s. [poezja]. Čarnojević Arsenije Molitva zaspalom Gospodu / Modlitwa do Pana, który zasnął. Jovanović Šakabenta Arsenije Nadgrobno slovo Beogradu / Epitafium dla Belgradu. Zapis u srebru čudotvorne ikone / Inskrypcja na srebrnej sukience cudownej ikony. Kostić Laza
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012) T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012) T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2 (Issue: 4 (2)/2014).
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2. (Issue: 4 (2)/2014), 2014
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (2007—2012) / Bibliography of translations of Slavic literature (2007-2012). T. 4. Cz. 2 (Issue: 4 (2)/2014), 2014
Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (1990–2006). T. 1. Cz. 4. Red. Bożena Tokarz. Kato... more Bibliografia przekładów literatur słowiańskich (1990–2006). T. 1. Cz. 4. Red. Bożena Tokarz. Katowice, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2013, 388 s. – Publikacja ta stanowi ostatnią część tomu pierwszego pt. Wybory translatorskie 1990-2006. Rejestruje tłumaczenia z literatury czeskiej, słowackiej i macedońskiej w Polsce oraz odwrotnie, z literatury polskiej na języki czeski, słowacki i macedoński. Na końcu części ostatniej tomu pierwszego, czwartej, zamieszczono indeks autorów i indeks tłumaczy do wszystkich części bibliograficznych tomu pierwszego po to, by ułatwić czytelnikowi korzystanie z bibliografii oraz ułatwić wyciąganie wniosków na temat wyborów translatorskich. / This publication is the last part of the first issue (1 (1)/2009) entitled Translation choices in the years 1990-2006 (Wybory translatorskie 1990-2006.). It provides a record of the translations of Czech, Slovak and Macedonian literature in Poland and, vice versa, from Polish literature into Czech, Slovak and Macedonian. At the end of the last part of the first volume – the fourth one – an index of authors and an index of translators were added to all the bibliographic parts of the first volume in order to help readers use the bibliography and facilitate their drawing conclusions about the translation choices.
Prezentowany zbiór prac rozpoczyna serię publikacji poświęconą zagadnieniom przekładu artystyczne... more Prezentowany zbiór prac rozpoczyna serię publikacji poświęconą zagadnieniom przekładu artystycznego (literackiego), widzianym w perspektywie teoretycznej, historycznoliterackiej i historycznokulturowej. Projekt obejmuje zarówno rejestrację wydań i recepcji przekładów, jak również problematykę szczegółową, dotyczącą: 1) specyfiki przekładu w granicach języków blisko spokrewnionych, 2) przekładu jednej kultury na drugą oraz 3) roli przekładu w badaniach komparatystycznych. Ze względu na podjętą dwutorowość badań, założenie dokumentacyjno-socjologiczne (bibliografia przekładów litera‑ tur słowiańskich na język polski i literatury polskiej na języki słowiańskie oraz ich recepcja) oraz założenie krytyczno-interpretacyjne (służące uogólnieniom teoretycznym) poszczególne tomy będą wydawane w dwóch częściach, w dwóch woluminach, które będzie łączył czas publikacji tłumaczeń. W pierwszej części każdego tomu znajdą się artykuły poświęcone wybranemu zagadnieniu transla‑ tologicznemu (np. tom 1, część 1 nosi tytuł Wybory translatorskie 1990—2006), w drugiej zaś — bibliografia przekładów. Tom adresowany jest do literaturoznawców i przekładoznawców (naukowców, krytyków i studentów) oraz do slawistów komparatystów. W Polsce badania nad przekładem mają już swoją tradycję i kilka ośrodków uniwersyteckich legi‑ tymuje się poważnymi pracami z tego zakresu. Zważywszy na to, że dzieje polskiego przekładoznawstwa obejmują różne typy przekładów, badanych w ujęciu językoznawczym, literaturoznawczym i częściowo kulturowym, a także fakt, że jeden z kolejnych tomów niniejszej serii będzie poświęcony przekładoznawstwu słowiańskiemu (w tym polskiemu), należy zasygnalizować miejsce, jakie mają zająć " Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich " wśród publikacji slawistycznych oraz wśród serii literaturoznawczych poświęconych przekładowi.
After 1989 the number of translations of Bulgarian literature into Polish decreased dramatically ... more After 1989 the number of translations of Bulgarian literature into Polish decreased dramatically in comparison with the output of the previous 50 years. On the one hand, this seems to be caused by a complete change of the Polish state’s cultural policy principles, too little activity on the part of relevant institutions, or even giving up the obligation to create and support the inter-cultural dialogue or to mediate in this process. On the other hand, it is primarily market economy and interest of the media and not the efforts or commitment of the translators that are decisive factors for the number and quality of publications.
his text examines the reception of Polish literature into professional Bulgarian publications for... more his text examines the reception of Polish literature into professional Bulgarian publications for literature and art. It submits to a discussion the following sources: The special issue of „Literaturen westnik” („Literary Weekly”) entitled Polish Literature of the Nineties, no.11 (22.—28.03.2000), devoted entirely to the changes occurred in Polish literature and artistic life at the end of the past century; and no. 18 (8.—14.05.2002) of the same journal presents under the title Polish Nike, presents the most prestigious Polish literary award and its laureates during the years 1997—2002. Mentioned above jurnal „Literaturen westnik” („Literary Weekly”) had two more special issues: Literature on Heel – or Better Literature, no. 35 (2.—8.11), and Literature before the Mirror or Better Literature, no. 6 (15.—21.02), published in 2006, both focused on Polish women’s feminist writers. The article takes also into account the issue of „Panorama”, no. 3 (2002), which gives an overview of Polish literature translated into Bulgarian after 1989. Included into this discussion is the periodical „Kritika”, no. 3—4 (2006); it gives a survey of the most interesting statements of Polish literary critical thought in the same period, that is, after 1989. Similarly, the „Slavianski dialozi” („Slavic Dialogues”), no. 8 (2007), that presents some most important ways of development in contemporary Polish culture.
The article surveys translated excerpts from Polish literature, which have appeared in the Bulgar... more The article surveys translated excerpts from Polish literature, which have appeared in the Bulgarian specialized literary press-both weeklies and monthlies. The selection of Polish writers is reviewed as an aesthetic choice of texts, as a traditional presence in the Bulgarian culture, and as representative for the Polish literature in Bulgaria. The socio-cultural selection of Polish subjects is being analyzed and also the way they are being rendered by the translators.
The article discusses translation transformations in Polish version of the Bulgarian fairy tale T... more The article discusses translation transformations in Polish version of the Bulgarian fairy tale Trzej bracia i złote jabłko (Three Brothers and the Golden Apple). The fairy tale has been published in the collection Złota moneta za słowo. Bułgarskie bajki i legendy ludowe (Golden Coin for a Word. Bulgarian Fairy Tales and Legends — selection and introduction by Georgi Minczew, Lodz 2006).The main subject of the analysis is aesthetic code of the translation — the ways the translator has shown specific features of the oral text such as repetitions, forms and clichés. The author of the article is particulary focused on traformations on syntactic level (transformations in statements structures, changes in words order and text segmentation).The choices made by the translator prove that he wasn’t fully aware what literature genre he is translating. As the result, the translation is lacking essential for folk texts, and for fairy tale in particular, stylistic features which appear in the original.
After 1990 the translations of the Croatian war writings relatively seldom appear in Polish trans... more After 1990 the translations of the Croatian war writings relatively seldom appear in Polish translations of Croatian literature. In the realm of lyrics the translation of Stamać & Sanader‘s book
U ovom strašnom času. Antologija hrvatske ratne lirike is the most important publication. In this article two translations of Tadijanović‘ poem entitled Molba munji nebeskoj are analysed. The authoress of the first translation Muriel Kordowicz has translated the poem in the above mentioned antology, the author of the second one Julian Kornhauser has published his own translations of Tadijanović‘ poem in the magazine „Literatura na Świecie”. In the recapitulation of this analysis the statement of two different translators‘ strategies is given. The Kordowicz‘ translation is an example of philological model of translation and the Kornhauser‘s translation is an example of transpositional-modulational one.
The text presents one of Dubravka Ugresic’s latest novels perceived as the subject of translation... more The text presents one of Dubravka Ugresic’s latest novels perceived as the subject of translation. The ministry of pain founded on (ex-)Yugoslavian past turns out extremely difficult, in some parts it seems close to the untranslability. The problem concerns especially the parts which are more essayistic and estimate Croatian literature or communism in former Yugoslavia. Dorota Jovanka Ćirlić, the translator, had decided to explain some of the difficulties in her special note added to the novel (the footnotes supplement the writer’s endnotes). The troublesome words and phrases left without that kind of explanation might find it directly in the novel (descriptively commented) or require reader’s self-reliance. Apart from the cultural setting there is also a language question in the novel which because of its complex character and the translation strategy shall be interpreted separately.
Does the musicality of the Josip Sever`s poem klišej kiše come through in the translation? The te... more Does the musicality of the Josip Sever`s poem klišej kiše come through in the translation? The text Has the music gone from Josip Sever`s work? illustrates the influence of the translation process on textual levels of musicality: the sound sphere (consciously formed in relation to music) and making music a theme. It is mainly based on Polish post-war musico-literary studies, especially Andrzej Hejmej’s theory from the book Musicality of a literary work.
The paper deals with translations of Polish literary works into Croatian language in the period b... more The paper deals with translations of Polish literary works into Croatian language in the period between 1990 and 2007. We took into consideration only those translations that were published as books or those published in Croatian journals as a part of a larger thematic piece dedicated to Polish literature. Apart from translations of literary works, the article deals with the translations of literary-historical and literary-theoretical studies, as well as linguistic works. Our detailed revision confirms high productivity of Croatian translators of Polish literature.
The article engages attention to the translation problems of a new „Prague literature”. It analyz... more The article engages attention to the translation problems of a new „Prague literature”. It analyzes three polish translations of the following novels Podobojí by Hodrová, Druhé město by Ajvaz and Sestra by Topol. It underlines that L. Engelking overcame almost perfectly mixture of the styles, convention, words; but on the other hand he chooses the solutions that weaken the relation between Prague tradition and topography. The Prague context is important as a starting point, however in a translator strategy Prague specific is often subordinated to a general meaning.
Czech so called „bestseller literature” is represented in Polish readers’ enviroment by translati... more Czech so called „bestseller literature” is represented in Polish readers’ enviroment by translations of Michal Viewegh’s, Irena Obermannová’s and Halina Pawlowská’s books. These authors are celebrities in Czech Republic, their activity (both as writers and TV programms’ moderators) evokes distinct cultural connotation. Their books are extremally popular and best selling on domestic market. But in Poland all these authors are slightly known. We can find reasons of such situation in many levels: in a lack of marketing actions accompanying their books on Polish market, lack of information about these authors, in an existence of pattern of Czech culture and literature in Polish readers’ consiousness that approves high artistic literature and depreciates bestseller literature.
The purpose of this article is to show the ways of expressing the Macedonian category of witness ... more The purpose of this article is to show the ways of expressing the Macedonian category of witness in Polish translations of Macedonian prose. At the beginning we present the situation of the прекажаност category against a background of the other Slavonic languages and than we characterize this category and its grammatical exponents. After that we describe the problem of truth modality which the category of witness is included in. We particularly take into concideration Polish language and the Macedonian adverbs serving this function. In the final part of this article we present some examples showing the Macedonian прекажаност category which are taken from the Polish translations of Macedonian texts. It lets us get the representation of the practical usage of the devices approchable for translators.
The research on translation of Polish drama to the languages of former Yugoslavia countries is be... more The research on translation of Polish drama to the languages of former Yugoslavia countries is becoming an interdisciplinary discourse. This is because the theatrical reception is wider than the literery one and Polish drama and theatre plays an important role in the history of the culture of South Slavonic countries after the World War II. The period between 1990 and 2006, that is analysed in this article of Polish drama publications in Serbia, is especially important for Balkans because of undergoing war. Due to the situation that paralyses cultural activity, therewas only one drama published in Belgrad translated by Biserka Rajcic (I. Villquist Helver’s Night) and there were four excerpts of contemporary dramas in the magazine Polja translated by Zoran Djeric (P. Jurek Porno Generation, M. Pruchniewski Łucja and her children, P. Sala Good from now on, A. Saramanowicz Testosteron). The author emphasizes translation dilemmas that emerged in theatre scenarios that are far away from literery translations also the ones that weren’t published. She also suggests looking at theatrological research that would show more of Polish drama in many Slavonic languages and cultures.
The 30th anniversary of the death of Miloš Crnjanski (1893—1977) and the publishing of the transl... more The 30th anniversary of the death of Miloš Crnjanski (1893—1977) and the publishing of the translation of his novel A Novel about London markt the beginning of studying how the nowel was received by the readers of the original version compared to the readers of the translation with all of its foreign elements. In A Novel about London a reader can easily notice the elements of foreign culture. This leads to the reflection on the differences in how readers of the original version end readers of the translation perceive foreign elements. The different system of connotations is influenced by different language patterns which are typical for the readers of translations. The reading of the Polish version of Crnjanski’s novel let us conclude that the solutions applied by the translator of the foreign text activate the reader’s impression of strangeness which is caused by the presence in the translation of lexical end grammatical categories which are incompatible with the Polish language standards. Nevertheless, the foreign elements of the translation lose their importance when faced with the universality and topical theme of the novel.
The review of polish translation of slovak drama between 1990—2005 regards two areas of dramatic ... more The review of polish translation of slovak drama between 1990—2005 regards two areas of dramatic text’s circulation. They are: scenic area and literatury area, which are also two spaces for direct contact between recipient and a text of a drama’s translation. During an indicated time slovak drama were staged by polish theatres seldom, stagings of radio-plays were dominated. The reason is in insufficiency of slovak drama’s translations in polish. Translations from before 1989 weren’t published, they loos at translators’s archives and now stage managers haven’t approach to them. From the beginning of 90. years only four translations of slovak drama were published. They also weren’t staged by polish profesional theatres. The direct presence of Slovak drama in Poland is almost zero. This situation is only slightly owing by translators’s decision about a text to translating. It’s also slightly owing by a quality of translations like a final effect of a translators’s choices during his work. The minimal knowlegde of polish recipient anout slovak drama and theatre is also very important agent.
The author presents in this paper her consideration of the strategy of translation taken by Jacek... more The author presents in this paper her consideration of the strategy of translation taken by Jacek Bukowski, polish translator of Václav Pankovčín prose. Short stories Marakéš (1994) and the novel Tri ženy pod orechom (1996) by Václav Pankovčín were publicated in Poland under the title Marakesz (2006) and are the only one example of slovak prose transalted into polish this year. The author of the paper discusses transtlatological problems of the prose wchich strongly corespondents with magical realism, she concentrates on the semantic signals of the text, significant elements of the structure which define the boundary-line of the meaning space of Václav Pankovčín works. Finaly she reflects on the transfer of implicated senses and meanings from original into translation. She reflects how in proces of translation the translator transfered hormony of fundamental codes of the original (lexical, semantics, cultural and estetic).
Between the years 1990 and 2006, about 50 Polish books (poetry, prose and drama) were translated ... more Between the years 1990 and 2006, about 50 Polish books (poetry, prose and drama) were translated in already independent Slovenia, also a lot of single poems, short stories and fragments of more substantial compositions. Slovene macrochoices from Polish literature on the one hand constitute continuation of the traditional presence in the Slovene culture, on the other hand they result from increasing language and encyclopedic competencies of the translators. The choices are defined by four criteria: Polishness, empathy, the desire to get to know the Polish mentality, the historically-literal process and personal motivation. The authors of choices and translations of Polish literature are translators belonging to many generations, differently evaluating the needs of a Slovene reader and the character of Polish literature and mentality. Although Polish literature is distinctly present in the Slovene literary life, in the Slovene choices from it dominates perspective of strangeness, with which translators from different generations familiarise the native recepient, choosing works belonging to the canon and often to the opposite pole.
The poetry of Gregor Strniša — one of the greatest Slovenian poet of the XX century — is widely p... more The poetry of Gregor Strniša — one of the greatest Slovenian poet of the XX century — is widely presented in Poland by Katarina Šalamun-Biedrzycka. Apart from poetry anthology Silver and moss she also published independent selection of his poetry Odysseus. Presented article considers the translator’s choices on three levels — chosen poetry volumes, poems and translator’s transformations itself. On the level of chosen poetry volumes the translator omits the last three ones, clearly realizing specific for the artist idea of the „cosmic consciousness”. The circle of receiving audience is being devoided of even selective experience of the volumes’ character, in which Strnisa realizes (on the lyrical range) his conception of the world and universe. On the level of poetics translator presents Strniša’s poems only as „degrees of releasing terror” and at the same time limits the perspective of the created reality only to the dimension inspired by existentialist philosophy. Comparing the original text with the translation has proven that they differ significantly. However, Šalamun-Biedrzycka’s translations undoubtedly deserve merit for their pioneering quality.
Rozka Štefan an outstanding specialist in Polish studies, translator and expert on Polish literat... more Rozka Štefan an outstanding specialist in Polish studies, translator and expert on Polish literature. She has devoted all her life to presenting Polish culture and literature to Slovenians. She has translated most of Polish Romantic literature into Slovenian (mainly Mickiewicz) and works of the most important contemporary poets rooted in „Polishness”, such as: Staff, Tuwim, Różewicz or Miłosz. Her translator selections (in the broad sense) are always tinted with a strategy of presentation of what is typically Polish, what is specific for the culture of the „country on the Vistula”; this is also proof that for a good translator there are no limits to convey the meaning. In 1999 an anthology of Polish love lyrics titled Antologija poljske ljubezenske lirike was published in Slovenia, in 2000 — her translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s Konrad Wallenrod followed by a selection of Tuwim’s poems (2001) — Julian Tuwim. The last three translation works by the 94 year old translator — covered by this paper — are perfect evidence of her translator consistency; they are a specific „summa” of her translating style, an essence of her translating perfectionism, both with respect to macro and micro choices in the plane of specific translated texts. Their common trait is her strategy of presentation of the „Polishness”.
The subject of the analysis made in the article is the translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Diary (... more The subject of the analysis made in the article is the translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Diary (1904—1969) into the Slovenian language. This translation has a specific character, because the translator has shortened the original text — he decides what fragment of the work will reach the reader. The author of the article assumes that Slovenian literary consciousness is shown in the translator’s decision. With this in mind the Diary is treated mainly as a testimony of time, and less often as a literary piece, therefore intervention such as shortening is admissible. Then the author shows examples in which shortening the text changed its meaning. In the conclusions the author acknowledges that in the case of interpreting the translation, one can view the translator as a co-author of the work. As a result of his decision the work strays in many places from the shape of the original — however it also creates separate senses. The translator’s solutions were determined by different location of this literary kind in the sphere of the Polish culture and the culture receiving the work (Slovenian).
There are two Polish translations of Andrić’s short story U musafirhani. First one by Maria Znato... more There are two Polish translations of Andrić’s short story U musafirhani. First one by Maria Znatowicz-Szczepańska was published in 1937. Second one by Alija Dukanović, Bosnian who settled and lived in Poland, was published in 1966. The story presents two Bosnians communities: Catholics and Muslims. The analysis of these two translations shows that the Catholic community is stronger in the Polish translations than in the original text. This tendency is more clear in ZnatowiczSzczepańska’s work. On the one hand the position of Catholics is much better and on the other hand their dependence on Muslims is smaller, as it was in real and as it is shown in Andrić’s piece. In Dukanović’s translation there is a tendency to present Muslims in a better way as well. They are not so primitive, demanding and ruthless. Differences between translations correspond with the context they were written. In the period between two world wars there was an antiphaty for the Muslim part of Bosnia which was treated as a dangerous element, warlike and communistlike. After The Second World War, during Communist times, rules unitarist ideology and it wasn’t correct to emphasis civilizations, religious and national differences. It helps to understand both strategies of translations, why Marija Znatowicz-Szczepańska is very familiar with Catholics and very distanced from Muslims and at the same time why Alija Dukanović presents Muslims in a better way. ZnatowiczSzczepańska’s way of translation we can treat as domestication, Dukanović’s one as foreignization with strong element of the manipulation.
Predstava “Hamleta” u selu Mrduša Donja is the most popular Croatian and former Yugoslav drama an... more Predstava “Hamleta” u selu Mrduša Donja is the most popular Croatian and former Yugoslav drama and play in Poland. The Polish translation of Predstva… was published in the magazine Dialog (nr. 1/1975) and then in 1988 in the book Antologia współczesnego dramatu jugosłowiańskiego. The first play was realised in Zielona Góra in 1975, the last one in Krakow in 2009. In total, Brešan’s text was played in 16 Polish theatres. The subject of the analisys is the reception and translation which oscillates between two opposite poles: universal interpetation which emphasises human, timeless meaning of the drama and political interpretation which emphasises political and social context presented in the drama.
There are two stereotypes in the reception of Croatian literature in the period of 1944—1956. Yug... more There are two stereotypes in the reception of Croatian literature in the period of 1944—1956. Yugoslavia was a political ally for Comunist and Slavic countries in the begining. After 1948, after the Cominform Resolution of June 28th, it became one of their worst enemies. In the first period from 1944 to 1948 the Yugoslav authors present literature as coherent Yugoslav literature, with Polish reviewers insisting on the diffrences between the Yugoslav republics. Yugoslav literature in this period was about war, and writers are judged according to their political profiles and attitude during the World War II. The ones who symphatized with Partisans were progressive, the ones who lived in the occupied coutries were under the harmful infulence of Western culture, with its bourgeois values. After the Cominform Resolution, the literatures of the various Yugoslav republics are presented as homogeneous with no cultural differences. Every type of communication between Yugoslavia and Poland is broken down at that time. There is war rethoric in extremely negative Polish presentations of literary production in Yugoslavia in the second period.
The world we live in seems to be created for comparative -translation studies. There is real revo... more The world we live in seems to be created for comparative -translation studies. There is real revolution, the change of system in the humanities and philology studies; there is the end of one world and the beginning of new digital era. Research methods and research themes are changing. On the one hand literature has lost its position in society and this is why a new formula of comparative studies cannot be limited to literature or culture but comparative studies must take into account non -artistic spheres of man’s activity; philology studies, if they want to survive, cannot be limited to exclusively literary, text oriented studies. On the other hand age of Internet, globalization, communication, transcultural society cannot function without translation which is the best way to get to know other cultures and enrich each other. The space between culture and languages, border zone which implies multiperspectivism seems to be the most appropriate for neo -philology studies and research.
There were translated about thirty books of Serbian literature in the period from 2007 to 2013, m... more There were translated about thirty books of Serbian literature in the period from 2007 to 2013, most of them were books of poetry. There were little number of translations in the literary magazines and journals. The number of translations is quite big but the reception of Serbian literature and culture was weak. The wars which accompanied the decay of the Second Yugoslavia has had big negative influence on the reception of Serbian literature and culture. Nowadays, after the fall of communism, literary contacts depend on initiative of individuals, the institution of translation literature has gone through the process of privatization.
Artykuły zamieszczone w niniejszym tomie uporządkowane zostały w dwóch częściach zatytułowanych T... more Artykuły zamieszczone w niniejszym tomie uporządkowane zostały w dwóch częściach zatytułowanych Tłumaczenie jako naśladowanie i Tekst i kultura wyjściowa w świetle kultury docelowej. W części pierwszej znalazły się prace omawiające wpływy i inspiracje jako zjawisko kreatywne i pragmatyczne oraz jako wynik interpretacji tekstu w kontekście kultury przyjmującej. W części drugiej autorzy rozważają możliwości i cele naśladowania, jak również oczekiwania odbiorców przekładu. Naśladowanie w tłumaczeniu rozumieją szeroko: już nie tylko jako inspirację artystyczną, czyli dość swobodnie, lecz także: jako respektowanie tekstu i kultury wyjściowej w świetle kultury docelowej; jako zachowanie denotatywno‑konotatywnej informacji o kulturze wyjściowej lub trzeciej kulturze, w perspektywie odbiorcy kultury docelowej. / Articles in this volume are ordered in two parts entitled Translation as imitation and Text and source culture in the light of the target culture. In the first part, there are works discussing influences and inspirations as a creative and pragmatic phenomenon, and as a result of text interpretation in the context of the target culture. In the second part, the authors consider the possibilities and goals of imitation as well as expectations of the recipients of the translation. Imitation in translation is understood broadly: not only as an artistic inspiration, i.e. quite liberally, but also as respecting the text and the source culture in the light of the target culture; as behavior of denotative-connotative information about the source culture or third culture, in the perspective of the target culture recipient.
Translation is not only an important way to learn the art of poetry, but also provides a way to u... more Translation is not only an important way to learn the art of poetry, but also provides a way to understand other cultures. However, it is mostly misunderstood: some would desire a literal translation even if the spirit of the text is lost, others a loose version even if the meaning is lost. Everything we write is already a translation in that is made of words as opposed to the original experience, and every translation is then necessarily an interpretation. Literary translation involves trying to recreate the experience of the original, and this can be done in ways ranging from actual translation to imitation.
Abstract: Ivan Mažuranić was the first among the South Slavs to translate The Books of the Polish... more Abstract: Ivan Mažuranić was the first among the South Slavs to translate The Books of the Polish People and of the Polish Pilgrimage by Adam Mickiewicz, with the impact in his political bro‑ chure Croats and Hungarians. The knowledge of literary translations of the period contributes to the research of the Croatian ‑Polish relationship during the long ‑term endangerment of the national identities of both nations.
Abstract: The article concerns the issue of the interpreter’s freedom concerning the translations... more Abstract: The article concerns the issue of the interpreter’s freedom concerning the translations of the titles of prose works. The matter seems important not only because of the necessity of reserving the title’s essential functions (identification, information, pragmatic), and not only be‑ cause of the need of the complex analysis of the original title — its working relationship, but also because of the ‘ambassadorial’ role of — this title in the secondary cultural space. Key words: title translation, freedom of the interpreter, translating Slovenian prose, foreignness in translation.
Abstract: The textual nature of translation determines its hybrid nature: it exists as a tension ... more Abstract: The textual nature of translation determines its hybrid nature: it exists as a tension be‑ tween the original and the receiving culture. Consequently, the translator assumes a responsibility towards both the author and the reader S/he imitates the strategies used in the original in order to generate meaning but, at the same time, keeps a balance between the otherness of the source and its similarity to the target culture.
The starting point for the presented elaboration on translation is the concept of Ferdinand de Sa... more The starting point for the presented elaboration on translation is the concept of Ferdinand de Saussure's anagrams. Anagrams consist of a certain phoneme or group of phonemes repeated in the literary work. They form a certain word or words (idea, theme) which are scattered (disseminated) in the text. By reconstructing these words we are able to discover or (re)construct the implicit, hidden sense of the text. Reading and interpreting anagrams from the perspective of psychoanalysis enables on to consider them as an expression of the author's unconsciousness (Julia Kristeva). In this paper the translation of the poems (la folie de saussure by K. Bagić) is analyzed taking into consideration the possibilities and limitations of the transfer of hidden and added senses that appears as a result of the anagram's presence or the tonal organization of the literary text (e.g. in the case of the poetry of the Russian Futurists and the idea of zaum).
Abstract: In the Polish culture of the late twentieth and early twenty ‑first century, we see an ... more Abstract: In the Polish culture of the late twentieth and early twenty ‑first century, we see an increased interest in Czech literature and its translations, which are often an integral step in the distribution mechanisms of such works. This article aims at presenting for discussion the issue of translation as an interpretation and the question of faithfulness to the original text, as literary translation does not offer freedom. It exists between artistic freedom and the author’s intention, and it is a forced compromise between an unattainable ideal and practical necessity. Key words: Czech literature, translation, language, interpretation, freedom.
Abstract: In Crnjanski’s poetry, the homeland is symbolized by toponyms, which are already exhibi... more Abstract: In Crnjanski’s poetry, the homeland is symbolized by toponyms, which are already exhibited in the titles. They present some elements of tradition, e. g. a reference to folk songs heroes and Orthodox religion. The transfer of local names and some elements of foreign culture expose the exotic feature of this territory. It is an example of the cultural barrier and difficulties with understanding cultural context. The poetry by Crnjanski refers to a foreign space which is exotic, not only for the Polish reader, but also for readers of the original texts.
Abstract: A translator’s erudition and sensory perception in the process of translation are of hu... more Abstract: A translator’s erudition and sensory perception in the process of translation are of huge importance, especially in the translation of literature (literary texts), which are normally characte‑ rized by a high degree of reality (category mimesis), such as historical novels, biographies, diaries, essays, etc. The article focuses on the translation of art essays, in which occur descriptions of existing art pieces (ekphrasis). The Slovene translations of some of Zbigniew Herbert’s travelogue art essays, included in the “Barbarian in the garden” collection, are the research material for this article. Key words: mimetic literature (mimesis), translator’s erudition, sensory cognizance, ekphrasis, essay about visual arts
Abstract: The body and corporeality is one of the key categories in modern European drama. It is ... more Abstract: The body and corporeality is one of the key categories in modern European drama. It is also of tremendous significance for the interpretation and translation of the drama Odbrojavanje by the Croatian author Asja Srnec Todorović. The drama addresses the issue of violence expe‑ rienced by the body, shows its manifestations and seeks its sources. In the article we attempt to investigate the method used by the authors of the Polish translation of Odbrojavanje to transfer the ‘experience of the body’ expressed in Croatian into the Polish linguistic space. Key words: the body and corporeality, contemporary Croatian drama, translation.
Abstract: Looking at selected texts by Dubravka Ugrešić as translated by Dorota Jovanka Ćirlić, t... more Abstract: Looking at selected texts by Dubravka Ugrešić as translated by Dorota Jovanka Ćirlić, the most prolific contemporary Polish translator of Balkan literature, we consider the issue of presence (or absence) of an interpreter in the text. We will take a closer look at the solutions of translation, but also their importance in the context of building the position of the author, who, like the translator, acts as an ambassador. Key words: Dubravka Ugrešić, Dorota Jovanka Ćirlić, translator`s competence, domestification, strategy of translation, literality, semantic change, translation of idioms.
Abstract: The paper analyses proper names in literary translation of the polisemantical ethonym ‘... more Abstract: The paper analyses proper names in literary translation of the polisemantical ethonym ‘Turks’ (functioning also as an appellative) from the book The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić and its translation into Polish by Halina Kalita. The paper aims at looking into and analyzing in what way both the cultures i.e. the heterogeneous one of the original work — of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the one in the translation limit the translator in choosing equivalents. The ana‑ lysis shows that there are five translational methods which indicate some system limits of the two languages and the semantic/cultural aspects of proper and appellative names. Keywords: Ivo Andrić, literary translation, proper names, semiosphere, opposition familiarity/ foreignness.
Abstract: The article focuses on the issues related to the translation of proper names from Slove... more Abstract: The article focuses on the issues related to the translation of proper names from Slove‑ nian into Czech in the prose written by C. Kosmač and translated by F. Benhart. We will point to the function of proper names in the literary text as defined in Czech grammar and describe the possible methods of translating proper names. By means of examples, we will show the methods used by the translator, thereby influencing the interpretation of texts in the target language. Key words: proper names — translation — Ciril Kosmač — František Benhart — Slovenian literature.
Abstract: The transference of the language code, considering the structural differences between l... more Abstract: The transference of the language code, considering the structural differences between languages, causes the contexts of the text to be reformulated during the translation. Poetry, as one of the most problematic issues for translation, is considered as anuntranslatable element. Its form is usually the one that causes part of its contents to be lost. The most common problems include rhymes, rhythm, alliteration, the repetition of some words, etc. The boundaries in translating poetry should be in finding the semantic dominant which should be transferred into the other language, while the rest of the process should depend on the artistic talent of the translator and their sense for poetry. Key words: poetry, translation, dominants, rhyme, alliteration, freedom, limits.
Abstract: The article discusses the problem of translating an essay as a genre which is located b... more Abstract: The article discusses the problem of translating an essay as a genre which is located between science and art. It focuses on the translation of the Božidar Jezernik’s book published in Poland in 2011. It reveals the different effects of the translation due to the translation strategies which were applied in the text. Key words: Božidar Jezernik, essay, translation, translator.
Abstract: This article examines the problems associated with the acceptance of the work of Tadeus... more Abstract: This article examines the problems associated with the acceptance of the work of Tadeusz Konwicki in Bulgaria and Yordan Yovkov in Poland. The fundamental questions in the field of translation studies are considered in this article, which are related to the different cultural codes of the recipient, historical difficulties and incorrect translation strategies. Key words: translation, reception, historical and cultural discourse, Tadeusz Konwicki, Yordan Yovkov, the Exotic Other.
Abstract: The designated reader of the original Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli and the tran... more Abstract: The designated reader of the original Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli and the translation by Jana Unuk are two separate subjects. The reason for the difference is mainly the differing functions that are present in each of these texts’ socially ‑cultural reality. The work, due to the plethora of philosophical and historical conexts (rebuilding a city after a wartime cataclysm, the relationship towards time, memory and language), its structural composition and multifa‑ cetedness (the reflexive, dynamic description, the lack of dialogue) cause multiple meanings of interpretation and multiple possible translation solutions. Key words: reader, city, interpretation, idiom, context, perspective.
Translators are a part of institutionalized translation literature together with organi‑ zations ... more Translators are a part of institutionalized translation literature together with organi‑ zations of translators, literary critics, publishing houses, and magazines. They played a very important role in The Polish People's Republic. The Polish Communist Party treated them as nest of oppositionists. The first organization of translators, Association of Polish Translators and Interpreters, was established after years of failed attempts in 1981, not accidentally at the time of the biggest popularity of Solidarity. Translation literature was a part of cultural contacts with abroad which were a part of the foreign policy of the state. This particular sphere was under control of the state. Political ideology was the most important factor which influenced cultural policy. Despite those extratextual constraints translators and the sphere of cultural contacts with abroad had a little bit more freedom than other cultural institutions because the political authority wanted to create a positive picture of the country, especially for the foreign receiver. The position of the translator in The Polish People's Republic was close to The Horace Model of translation. He had to negotiate between a patron (in our case state) and two languages and cultures.
In her book Time-Space of Artistic Translation (Polish: Spotkania. Czasoprzestrzeń przekładu arty... more In her book Time-Space of Artistic Translation (Polish: Spotkania. Czasoprzestrzeń przekładu artystycznego), the author presents artistic translation as a communicative and hermeneutical issue with a specific place taken among other texts. Functioning in culturally different spaces and times, translation establishes dialogue relations with them and creates intellectual, emotional and sensual tensions (e.g. in the sphere of experiences of the translators and the recipients) within its own time-space. The research reflection was concentrated mainly on translations of Polish literature into the Slovene language and of Slovene literature into the Polish language. Translations of French literature into the Polish language were included in the research in the amount which can signal the comparative and communicative aspects of translation present in the linguistic triangle, which occurs among different language groups, Slovene and Romance. This significant and important problem deserves a separate research from the point of the intercultural dialogue, in which it takes place. Properties of translation such as intertextuality, intersubjectivity and pragmatism make it the foundation for the intercultural communication, which can be confirmed through the demand for that sort of translation. Expecting translation by a reader, an editor and a translator expresses the need for confronting oneself and one’s own culture with a foreign culture. Therefore, translation should contain signals of strangeness by being a surprise and an opportunity for a reader of the target foreign culture to follow it. The necessity of a dialogue motivates the existence of translation. A dialogue may occur in intratextual and extratextual space, initiating the forms of experiencing, of communicating and the ways of perceiving the world that are unknown yet in the receiving culture. For there is “light” between languages (the sphere of sense, sensation, expression and agreement), in the form of different categorization and conceptualization of an experience. A dictionary, the grammar and usage are the testimonies. The dialogue beyond the destination text is multidirectional (artistic, aesthetic, ethical and cognitively-emotional) and it acts culturally and psychologically. Due to the dialogue capacities, artistic translation enables self-understanding through comparison; it enriches and inspires the recipient. It may also be used for self confirming oneself in the corporate and individual areas. Exact translation is dynamic because it opens different horizons than those present in the receiving culture. Belated translation does not have such efficiency, it occurs too late to participate actively in the second culture. It usually confirms what is already known but may not be appreciated. A translator makes the decision about the communicative role of the translation. By transferring the original, a translator takes into account the expectations of the recipient and his or her mental aptitude formed by native culture and background knowledge, by the need of the reader to be surprised and ravished by the text; and by the sense of the original version or the model of the world included in it. A translator crosses over the border of his or her own culture remaining in it mentally and languagedly, in order to surprise, arouse interest, ravish and remain “faithful” to the original. Translation opens new horizons only when the translator, existing between two texts and two cultures, maintains balance between what is unknown, strange and what is homely or already domesticated. By creating mirrored worlds, a translator does his or her duty of enriching his or her own culture. At the same time, a translator is guided by cognitive curiosity and eagerness to experience a literary adventure. That adventure is based on overcoming language barriers which result from mental barriers, different sensual and mental experiences of the translator and the recipients (from the perspective of the model of the world found in the original) and which also result from the objective of the translation. A hermeneutical encounter, taking place sometimes between extreme subjectivities and cultures, occurs in translation due to empathy, above all of the translator. Being between texts and cultures, a translator has the possibility to make the translation a place of an encounter between contradictions without eradicating them, or has the possibility to cause extratextual reflection in the recipients. That is the “phenomenality” of translation and the “fusion of horizons” of the author, the translator, the target reader, and the cultures, all of which take place in the translation and through it. Therefore, translation is not only a creation and a process, but also an outlook on life that means openness and agreement, and this issue is usually not raised by books in translation theory.
Książka pt. Przekład, czyli na styku dwóch podmiotowości porusza fundamentalny problem nauki o pr... more Książka pt. Przekład, czyli na styku dwóch podmiotowości porusza fundamentalny problem nauki o przekładzie, jakim jest relacja autor–tłumacz. Posiłkując się interdyscyplinarnym warsztatem badawczym oraz szerokim zapleczem filozoficznym, przedstawia Autorka koncepcję przekładu (procesu) jako dialogu międzykulturowego oraz przekładu (tekstu) jako dzieła powstałego w wyniku spotkania dwóch podmiotowości, a więc dwóch osobowości, kultur, języków i strategii tekstowych. Tak rozumiany „styk podmiotowości” zakłada relacyjny i dynamiczny charakter przekładu, którego ontologia jest „ruchoma”. Każdy przekład (tekst) funkcjonujący w ramach choćby tylko założonej teoretycznie serii translatorycznej zbliża się do oryginału-prototypu. Ruch ten oznacza ścieranie się idei, interpretacji oraz wzajemne „oświetlanie” tekstów. Badanie relacji przekład–oryginał umożliwia zatem śledzenie owego ruchu idei, a także daje wgląd w tekstową genezę zmian translatorskich; wyznacza horyzont badania obecności Innego w przekładzie i stosunku tłumacza do kategorii obcości.
Praca stanowić ma wkład w teorię i filozofię przekładu; na nowo oświetla rudymentarne problemy translatologii oraz rozszerza wcześniejsze ustalenia tej dziedziny. Skierowana jest przede wszystkim do przekładoznawców oraz slawistów zainteresowanych najnowszą literaturą chorwacką.
The period between 1944 and 1989 is already a closed chapter of the history of Polish culture dur... more The period between 1944 and 1989 is already a closed chapter of the history of Polish culture during which it was subject to numerous restrictions, among other, ideological ones. The leading theme of the very book is a small fragment of the PRL reality, the sphere of cultural contacts with Yugoslavia, or, more precisely, the Socialist Republic of Croatia, its part at that time. The period under investigation consists of several phases. All periodization borderlines, both internal and external ones, are determined by political facts. Politics, though, gave rhythm to cultural life, and was the most important factor shaping a social background of the cultural activity those days. Both the situation on the international stage, concerned with not as much bilateral Polish-Yugoslavian relationship, as the state of affairs between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and the internal one played an important role. The influence of external factors turned out to be more significant in the beginning. A political situation was becoming more important starting from the 1970s. Writers in the Polish People’s Republic period, forced by the party, became active participants of a political life that is why internal problems often made literary contacts abroad secondary as writers and their organizations were more busy with the current situation in their closest environment. Croatian-Polish cultural contacts covered literature, music, film, theatre, and plastic art (there was also a cooperation with museums, libraries, and architecture, but it is not the subject of consideration here). Cultural relationships with abroad were a part of the foreign policy in the country that was totally in charge of this sphere. Its institutions dealt with programming, realization and financing. The country formulated requirements and claimed the right to control cultural activity. As a result of decentralization (Decision on decentralization of a cultural-educational exchange with abroad from 01.01.1968 (Odluka o decentralizacji kulturno-prosvjetne razmjene s inozemstvom sa danom 01.01.1968.) taken by the Federal Executive Council at the meeting on June 13 1966, was most important in terms of the cultural cooperation in Yugoslavia), the culture there was more pluralistic and scattered, but ideologically, more similar to the Polish model. Transferring responsibility for the cultural sphere into particular republics meant not only the privilege of planning and building cultural contacts by republic centres, but also the necessity to finance them. However, the most important subject of the cultural cooperation in both countries was the country as its exclusive patron. The difference between Warsaw and Belgrade consisted in multiplying decisive centres in the case of Yugoslavia. The contacts were made on the basis of contracts, programmes and agreements signed by the governments, institutions and organizations in both countries. The country authorities responsible for cultural cooperation (particular departments of central committees of both countries and national administration), creative unions (among others ZLP (Union of Polish Writers) and ZLJ (Union of Yugoslavian Writers)) , the mass media, the press above all, and publishing houses took part in institutional transmitting the cultural products and shaping their image. The process of locating the Croatian literature in Poland, on the other hand, was above all popularized by translators and researchers publishing their texts in the literary, as well as cultural-social press, as well as cultural journalists. These were the most significant indirect link. A decisive voice was given to the Warsaw circle. The image of the Croatian literature and culture was created by Alija Dukanović, Danuta Cirlić-Straszyńska, Grzegorz Łatuszyński, Edward Madany, Jan Wierzbicki and Zygmunt Stoberski. The magazines that published the greatest number of Craotian works, such as “Dialog”, “Literatura na Świecie”, “Poezja”, and “Twórczość” were also released in Warsaw. From other centres, Kraków competed with Warsaw, which was unequal, with the biggest success in terms of the research studies ( the most active institution in Poland was the PAN Committee of Slavic studies, having its branch in Kraków). In Kraków, it was Julian Kornhauser, a poet, translator, literature researcher, literary and translation critic, as well as Włodzimierz Kot and Maria Dąbrowska-Partyka that were most outstanding figures. The strongest turned out theatrical and literary connections. 38 plays by Croatian authors (in 86 realisations), including 6 performances for children were staged in Polish theatres in the very period. The consolidation of literary activity was possible thanks to visits writers and translators paid in order to sign contracts between ZLJ and ZLP, to take part in conferences, literary events, conventions, and study visits, as well as translations. 59 translations of the literature altogether, (65 with Yugoslavian anthologies), including 10 publications of the literature for children and for the youth, while 4 of them were second editions. Hence, 55 new publications were released between 1944 and 1989. The magazines published several hundred translations of the Croatian literature, above all, poetry. In the case of book translations, on the other hand, there was a great disproportion in favour of prose, visible not only in the number of novels and stories published, but also their edition copies. Apart from novels, the biggest edition concerned literature for children and teenagers, and science fiction one, popular in the 1980s. Film contacts were most prestigious. Cinematography was considered to influence its audience most strongly, and be the most efficient means of propaganda. Music cooperation consisted in basically individual visits paid by people connected with music who came to participate in the vents organized in Poland, and performances of particular artists. The relations within plastic arts included organization of exhibitions. 17 Yugoslavian and 7 Croatian, including 5 group and 2 individual ones were prepared, all of which dated in the 1970s and 1980s, that is, the period of decentralizing the sphere of cultural cooperation abroad in Yugoslavia. What is more, the artists from Croatia took part in international events many a time, such as photographic exhibitions, International Exhibition of Ceramics in Sopot, Warsaw International Poster Biennale, and International Biennale of Graphic Art in Kraków, belonging to the circle of its winners.
The biggest recognition in the whole Croatian-Polish cultural cooperation of the very period received sculpture of the world famous artist Ivan Meštrovic, naïve painting, Ivo Brešan’s play Przedstawienie “Hamleta” we wsi Głucha Dolna, Vladan Desnica’s novel Niespokojne wiosny, Ivo Pogorelić’s performances, in the 10th International Chopin Piano Competition. The most famous Croatian writer in the period under investigation was Miroslav Krežla.
Ta okazała, dwutomowa publikacja składająca się aż z 15 tekstów to pierwszy projekt zakrojony na ... more Ta okazała, dwutomowa publikacja składająca się aż z 15 tekstów to pierwszy projekt zakrojony na tak szeroką skalę i ze względu na koncepcję doboru oraz zakres materiału ma on charakter pionierski. (Nie tylko) fragmenty to jedyna dotąd w Polsce antologia, która nie powstała nawet w minimalnym stopniu metodą przeniesienia na nasz grunt i odtworzenia poprzez przekład tekstów zestawionych przez zagranicznych znawców dramatu. Jej zawartość i układ nie są zatem zależne od przekonań zewnętrznych badaczy. Zbiór został od początku do końca przygotowany przez polski zespół specjalistów i wyrasta z autorskiego wyboru dokonanego przez polską ekspertkę w zakresie dramatopisarstwa chorwackiego z myślą o polskich czytelnikach, przyszłych realizatorach, słuchaczach oraz widzach. Współpracowali z nami uznani tłumacze. Krótką charakterystykę tekstów przestawiamy Państwu w załączonym dokumencie. Nasza propozycja obejmuje sztuki powstałe w przeciągu dwóch pierwszych dekad nowego tysiąclecia. Są to najciekawsze dokonania artystyczne przedstawicieli nie tylko jednej, dwóch, ale aż trzech generacji. W wyborze znalazły się zatem propozycje weteranów, którzy przetrwali próbę czasu, jak również niedawno debiutujących dramatopisarzy, których pozycja jest już jednak ugruntowana. Nazwiska niektórych z nich (np. Lady Kaštelan, Ivany Sajko, Mate Matišicia, Tomislava Zajeca, Teny Štivičić, Ivora Martinicia) są w Polsce w pewnej mierze znane, pozostali dopiero przedostają się do tej przestrzeni. Mamy tu do czynienia z wieloma różnicami, odnoszącymi się do wspomnianego już wieku autorów, momentu w karierze zawodowej, doświadczenia historycznego, bogactwa dorobku pisarskiego i jego statusu w świecie teatralnym, manifestowania różnych spojrzeń, wrażliwości, doświadczeń i impresji oraz sposobów artykulacji. Teksty te łączy natomiast zaangażowanie społeczne, krytycyzm, określone motywy fabularne, kręgi tematyczne i podejmowane problemy, takie jak rodzina, przemoc, kryzys, tożsamość, migracja, marginalizacja, pozycja kobiet. Utwory te nie są dla polskich odbiorców zbyt egzotyczne lub hermetyczne, ich treść jest rozpoznawalna, przystająca do naszych realiów i jednocześnie zajmująca.
Ta okazała, dwutomowa publikacja składająca się aż z 15 tekstów to pierwszy projekt zakrojony na ... more Ta okazała, dwutomowa publikacja składająca się aż z 15 tekstów to pierwszy projekt zakrojony na tak szeroką skalę i ze względu na koncepcję doboru oraz zakres materiału ma on charakter pionierski. (Nie tylko) fragmenty to jedyna dotąd w Polsce antologia, która nie powstała nawet w minimalnym stopniu metodą przeniesienia na nasz grunt i odtworzenia poprzez przekład tekstów zestawionych przez zagranicznych znawców dramatu. Jej zawartość i układ nie są zatem zależne od przekonań zewnętrznych badaczy. Zbiór został od początku do końca przygotowany przez polski zespół specjalistów i wyrasta z autorskiego wyboru dokonanego przez polską ekspertkę w zakresie dramatopisarstwa chorwackiego z myślą o polskich czytelnikach, przyszłych realizatorach, słuchaczach oraz widzach. Współpracowali z nami uznani tłumacze. Krótką charakterystykę tekstów przestawiamy Państwu w załączonym dokumencie. Nasza propozycja obejmuje sztuki powstałe w przeciągu dwóch pierwszych dekad nowego tysiąclecia. Są to najciekawsze dokonania artystyczne przedstawicieli nie tylko jednej, dwóch, ale aż trzech generacji. W wyborze znalazły się zatem propozycje weteranów, którzy przetrwali próbę czasu, jak również niedawno debiutujących dramatopisarzy, których pozycja jest już jednak ugruntowana. Nazwiska niektórych z nich (np. Lady Kaštelan, Ivany Sajko, Mate Matišicia, Tomislava Zajeca, Teny Štivičić, Ivora Martinicia) są w Polsce w pewnej mierze znane, pozostali dopiero przedostają się do tej przestrzeni. Mamy tu do czynienia z wieloma różnicami, odnoszącymi się do wspomnianego już wieku autorów, momentu w karierze zawodowej, doświadczenia historycznego, bogactwa dorobku pisarskiego i jego statusu w świecie teatralnym, manifestowania różnych spojrzeń, wrażliwości, doświadczeń i impresji oraz sposobów artykulacji. Teksty te łączy natomiast zaangażowanie społeczne, krytycyzm, określone motywy fabularne, kręgi tematyczne i podejmowane problemy, takie jak rodzina, przemoc, kryzys, tożsamość, migracja, marginalizacja, pozycja kobiet. Utwory te nie są dla polskich odbiorców zbyt egzotyczne lub hermetyczne, ich treść jest rozpoznawalna, przystająca do naszych realiów i jednocześnie zajmująca.
Translations of Slavic Literatures, 2021
In modernism studies in the past decade, reflections on the supra-regional, formational character... more In modernism studies in the past decade, reflections on the supra-regional, formational characteristics of European modernism have been increasingly counterbalanced by comparative research focused on local distinctiveness, particular historical-literary claims, terminological antinomies, and the historical-cultural specificity of regional modernisms. The "transnational turn" in New Modernist Studies proclaimed by Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz not only helped to shift scholarly attention to heterogeneous cultural, geopolitical and historical traditions, but also emphasised the role of translation in cross-cultural expansion, circulation and the transformation of modernist ideas, currents, poetics, styles and genres. The recent growth of interest in the problems of literary translation in comparative modernism studies allows us to diagnose the "translational turn" in the discipline. Translation is being increasingly recognized as a mode of creative activity and one of the major discourses of modernist literature. It is also seen as a manifestation of modernist cultural sensitivity and self-awareness, and recognised as a basic analytical category that is able to grasp the distinct character of modernism as an expansive and internally diversified historical-cultural and artistic-ideological formation. "Modernist translation" is to be understood as a set of questions and problems emerging in comparative multilingual studies of European literary modernisms and in multilingual translation studies discourses rather than as a fixed and internally coherent repertoire of features, a strictly defined type of translation experience, or a selected canon of texts. We want above all to look for and compare possible answers to the questions "What is modernity in translation?" and "What is the modernist revolution in translation?" with reference to various national literatures and in relation to various European paradigms of modernism, rather than building a uniform, synthetic narrative consistent with the existing, mostly Anglo-American, proposals for describing "modernist translation" (e.g. Steven G. Yao, Lawrence Venuti and Roxana Preda)...
by Leszek Małczak, Piotr Marecki, Katarzyna Majdzik, Aleksander Gomola, Jakob Altmann, Monika Gawlak, Regina Solova, Natalia Paprocka, Karolina Pospiszil-Hofmańska, Andrij Saweneć, Katarzyna Bednarska, and Translations of Slavic Literatures
The programme of the Conference "Why we translate? Praxis, theory and metatheory of translation".
Periphery phenomenona (often unexploited and unseen in the origin/target culture) have been alway... more Periphery phenomenona (often unexploited and unseen in the origin/target culture) have been always aesthetically and epistemologically inspiring for artists. Not only in humanities can we see the growing interest in periphery as the phenomenon which is one of the consequences of the crisis of grand narratives in the postmodern world. Therefore, we would like to invite you to share with us your reflections on literary translation in the context of broadly understanding periphery in language, literature and culture, specifically regarding its aesthetical, philosophical, social and political nature. Periphery is an attribute of each literary translation. Translation is peripheral both for the source culture (its reception in other language and culture) and the target culture, especially for national-oriented, monolingual ones. It is particularly evident for the researcher of South Slavic and West Slavic languages, literatures and cultures in the context of translation and comparative studies that the periphery is the way of existence and the place of these cultures on the world literature and art map. Therefore, to begin our reflection on literary translation, we suggest to start from the most fundamental and general problems, from the localization of the periphery literatures in the literary system of particular nations/languages/communities. The position and the role of periphery literatures with regard to particular languages (narrow-range and wide-range languages) is historically changeable. On the one hand, it is interesting how periphery literatures translate each other, on the other hand, how they are translated into the wide-range languages, so unperiphery, because of their existence in the centre of the world cultural map. When we change the perspective and the direction of translation and when we will analyse translations from central languages, we can consider how these literatures function in translation into periphery languages, literatures and cultures, the role they perform and where is their place.
The Appendix from the book Croatian literature and culture in Poland between 1944 and 1989
The Appendix from the book Croatian literature and culture in Poland between 1944 and 1989
The Appendix from the book Croatian literature and culture in Poland between 1944 and 1989
„Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich”. T. 10, cz. 1 ISSN 2353-9763 (wersja elektroniczna) , 2020
| The present study focuses on the challenges of the intralingual translation from the peripheral... more | The present study focuses on the challenges of the intralingual translation from the peripheral dialect into official, standard Slovak that has been performed on unique Šariš region dialect fairy tales preserved in the village Fintice. They have been published recently in a bilingual form with their Slovak translation Zazračni dzvonček-Zázračný zvonček (Face 2018). The first part of the paper points out the peripheral aspects of the analysed text and stresses the importance of presenting such forgotten literary pieces for the community identity as well as for preserving community cultural heritage. The second part of the paper focuses on translation analysis and differences between the two texts on morpho-syntactic and lexical level, and in the degree of expressiveness.
| after 1989, the most productive translator of Polish literature in Slovakia is Karol chmel. Thi... more | after 1989, the most productive translator of Polish literature in Slovakia is Karol chmel. This article shows the variety of chmel's translations. in the 1990's and early 2000's he focused on poetic generations "nowa Fala" (new Wave) and "brulion" which were unknown in Slovakia until his translations were published. apart from poetry, his translation portfolio includes prose, essays and literary journalism. K. chmel is the exclusive Slovak translator of olga Tokarczuk's and andrzej Sapkowski's works. The translation of Slavic demons names in The Witcher by a. Sapkowski is analyzed in this article. KeyWoRdS | Karol chmel, Polish literature in Slovakia, olga Tokarczuk, Tadeusz Różewicz, andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher * Príspevok čiastočne vznikol v rámci riešenia grantového projektu ministerstva školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu Slovenskej republiky vega 1/0666/21 Percepcia nadprirodzena v jazykoch a kultúrach Slovanov s akcentom na západoslovanský a južnoslovanský areál ii.
The aim of the paper is to investigate how the changes that have taken place in the children's bo... more The aim of the paper is to investigate how the changes that have taken place in the children's book market in Poland over the last thirty years have influenced the selection of children's books by croatian authors that have been translated and published in Poland as well as their reception. Thanks to the conducted analyses, it will be possible to estimate the size and character of croatian children's literature in Poland in the analysed period. my focus will be primarily on the mechanics of book selection-publishers' motivation, their decisions and the consequences of their choices. i will analyse the mechanisms of selecting texts for translation by Polish publishers and their consequences on the basis of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of literary field.
Koniec dekady skłania do podsumowań, wytyczając umowne ramy czasowe dla porządkowania, opisu czy ... more Koniec dekady skłania do podsumowań, wytyczając umowne ramy czasowe dla porządkowania, opisu czy uogólnienia zjawisk. mamy za sobą trzy dziesięciolecia naznaczone zmianami polityczno-ustrojowymi państwowości narodów słowiańskich, transformacją i procesami stabilizacji. Perspektywa ostatnich trzydziestu lat pozwala na stawianie dogłębnych diagnoz, formułowanie sądów, ocen, pytań dotyczących zarówno przeszłości, jak i przyszłości, a także na obserwowanie zmiennej dynamiki przekładów literatur zachodnio-i południowosłowiańskich. dlatego też w kolejnym, już dwunastym, tomie czasopisma "Przekłady literatur Słowiańskich", zatytułowanym Od (prze)milczenia do dialogu. Przekłady literatur słowiańskich w latach 1990-2020, pragniemy bliżej przyjrzeć się temu okresowi, biorąc pod uwagę przemiany zachodzące w kulturze, zmieniające się perspektywy translacji, translatologii, odbioru przekładu, a także funkcjonowania rynku wydawniczego. W niniejszym tomie prezentujemy refleksje nad zagadnieniami: wyborów translatorskich w kręgu literatur słowiańskich w latach 1990-2020, recepcji literatur słowiańskich w wymienionym okresie, obecności i nieobecności przekładów literatur słowiańskich w innych krajach słowiańskich i niesłowiańskich, roli tłumaczy w dialogu międzykulturowym, wypaczania/objaśniania obrazu kultury/języka/literatury w kontekście słowiańskim. Poruszane są też kwestie związane z problematyką obiegu wydawniczego czy instytucjonalnego wsparcia dla inicjatyw przekładowych w obrębie Słowiańszczyzny.