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Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Między przekładem, komentarzem a interpretacją — uwagi na marginesie anglojęzycznego podręcznika literatury polskiej

Marta Skwara

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

In-between Translation, Commentary and Interpretation — Remarks on the Margins of an English Language History of Polish Literature

The paper is devoted to the reciprocal connections among three “metatexts”: 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.

KEY WORDS: translation, commentary, interpretation, intertextuality, Polish literature



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Harmonia kakofonii, czyli co śpiewa Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia (o dialogu kultur w polskim przekładzie Ministerstwa Bólu Dubravki Ugrešić)

Katarzyna Majdzik

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

The harmony of cacophony that is to say what Middle Eastern Europe sings (about culture dialogue in Polish translation of The Ministry of Pain written by Dubravka Ugrešić)


Translation relies on the recontextualisation and interpretation of the original text. Different cultural, linguistic and historical impacts determine the foundation of the translator’s interpretation. Translation enables cross-cultural communication as it mediates between two cultures and two semantic universes. The aim of such a dialog is to experience the understanding of different sensitivity and to learn new forms of expression as well as ways of perceiving the world. The object is to develope one’s own interpretations of reality.
According to Y. Winkin communication is a confirmation of collective values and relations of the group members belonging to the same culture. This statement results in understanding translationas a new symbolic order discovery and affirmation of the existing one.
The issue of interpretation and culture communication „in” and „through” the translation is discussed in the article on the basis of the Polish translation of a novel written by Dubravka Ugrešić titled The Ministry of Pain






Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Nad slovenskými prekladmi Wisławy Szymborskej

Zuzana Obertová

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

On Slovak Translations of Wisława Szymborska’s Poems

This paper deals with the Slovak translations of poems by Wisława Szymborska who was awarded Nobel Prize in 1996. Twenty years later two collection 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 which have been published in literature magazines as well as books since 1952, the year of the poet’s debut. Since some poems were translated more than once by different translators, the phenomenon of retranslation is also discussed. Various translations of three poems are compared and analyzed in the paper as well.


Keywords: Wisława Szymborska, literary translation, retranslation, interpretation, poem



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Jergovicia żonglerka stereotypami. Wokół polskiego przekładu powieści Srda śpiewa o zmierzchu w Zielone Świątki

Katarzyna Majdzik

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Juggling Stereotypes by Miljenko Jergović. On the Polish Translation of the Novel Srda pjeva, u sumrak, na duhove

This article is based on a Polish translation of the novel by Miljenko Jergović Srda pjeva, u sumrak, na duhove and discusses the problem of stereotypes in translation. Selected translation procedures will show the interpreter (Magdalena Petryńska) trying to convey stereotypical notions of the original frame in the Polish cultural circle. Examples of the procedures that interpreter’s followed are also a starting point to the reflection on the idea of linking the problem of interpretation and the problem of stereotype. Through these examples it is shown that the subject (which is also a literary figure) is a cultural being.

The problem of stereotype allows for the raising of a question about the independence of reality and art’s interpretation. Response to this question is inquired with the help of the concepts of S. Turner and P. Bourdieu.

Key words: Miljenko Jergović, translation, stereotype, interpretation.

 



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Odbiorca przewidywany w powieści Sny i kamienie Magdaleny Tulli w oryginale i przekładzie Jany Unuk na język słoweński

Marlena Gruda

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

The designated reader in the romance novel Dreams and stones by Magdalena Tulli, in the original and the translation by Jana Unuk into Slovenian

The designated reader of the original Sny i kamienie by Magdalena Tulli and the designated reader of the translation Sanje in kamni by Jana Unuk are two separate subjects. The reason for the difference is the differing configuration of the relationships between the current narrator, intersemiotics and the pragmatism of the translation as well as the differing functions in each of these texts’ socially‑cultural reality. A translator, who is first a reader of the original, and then the author of the translation, exercises a double actualization on the basis of her/his own behavior, life experiences and potential experiences as a reader of the text. The translator’s way of reading and her interpretation, which is focused on the historical context, is especially noticeable in the lexical (the translation of collocations, idioms and metaphors) and grammatical level, modal structure, determination of categories of time, axiological categories of „the absolute” and metalinguistics. The work Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli is, due to the plethora of philosophical and historical contexts, its structural composition and multifacetedness the cause of multiple meanings of interpretation and therefore, contains multiple possible translation solutions.

Key words: reader, city, interpretation, idiom, context, perspective



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Problemi interpretacje i prevođenja stare književnosti. Nekoliko pitanja, primjedbi i propozicija / Problemy interpretacji i tłumaczenia literatury dawnej. Kilka pytań, uwag i propozycji

Zvonimir Milanović

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

The Problems of Interpreting and Translating Old Literature. Several questions, comments and propositions

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.

Key words: translation studies, translation, interpretation, Kochanowski, old literature



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Przekład jako akt subwersji, czyli o pewnym polskim tłumaczeniu tragedii historycznej Theodora Körnera pt. Zriny

Leszek Małczak

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Translation as an Act of Subversion: About one of the Polish Translations of Historical Tragedy Zriny by Theodor Körner

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.

KEY WORDS: subversion, Theodor Körner, Ludwik Jenike, translation, patriotism



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Obraz Turka osmańskiego — między mitem, historią a przekładem (na marginesie dwóch powieści historycznych Wery Mutafczijewej)

Adriana Kovacheva

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Representations of Ottoman Turks — between myth, history and translation (about two historical novels of Vera Mutafchieva)

This paper raises two main questions. The first one is how to situate the strategy of representation of Ottoman Turks in historical novels of Vera Mutafchieva The Djem Affair and The Last Shishmans in the frames of bulgarian historical and literary context of the ‘60s and ‘70s of the 20th century. It is not possibile to describe this strategy without reference to the impact of folklore and nineteenth century tradition of representing the Muslims and Turks. In this context fields three themes that causes conflicts are distinguished and their interpretation in the translation of the novel could be used as a criterium for the translation’s evaluation. These themes are the notion of East and West, the topic of multiethnicity in Ottoman Empire and bulgarian stereotypes of Turks, Islam and national identity.
The second question is how the Polish translator interpreted above mentioned historical novels of Mutafchieva. The analysis of some important details shows that the polish translation of The Djem Affair do not follow original emphases and thus eliminate some local meanings of the novel, which means that it obliterates some of its key conflicts and contradictions.



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Podwojony dialog — przekładu i twórczości własnej — ujęcie komparatystyczne?

Monika Gawlak

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Doubled dialogue of the translation and own artistic work — comparative perspective?

The subject of this article is concerning the area of translation created by an author, a writer. In such case not only the dialogue between poetics of an author’s primary texts and the poetics of self-translated texts is at importance. The relation in which particular translation is involved with the original author’s passages also cannot be diminished. Those problems open a wide space for the translation and comparative studies research. The translation is perceived as an interpretation seen accordingly to the postulates of modern comparative studies — so as an intercultural dialogue, the dialogue of literature, opening itself for further relations in the sphere of ultimate culture and the own artwork of the author of the translation. In Poland it applies to works (original and translational) of — among others — Stanisław Barańczak, Julian Tuwim or Czesław Miłosz. In reference to the translations of Slovenian literature in Poland and Polish literature in Slovenia (after year 1990) one of the fascinating phenomenon in this context would be mutual translation of their own texts of two poets — Adam Wiedemann and Primož Čučnik. Their translations function as a complement rather than polemic factor. The authors explicitly point to initiating the intertextual relations between their texts. The resemblance of the poetics and choices made in the scope of translation unveil the relationship in terms of an idea, outlook on the world and aesthetics.

Key words: literary translation, comparative study, Adam Wiedemann, Primož Čučnik, dialogism



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

„Zbiór ten nie zostanie bezużytecznym w księgarstwie ciężarem…”, czyli Narodowe Pieśni Serbskie wybrane i przełożone przez Romana Zmorskiego

Izabela Lis-Wielgosz

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

“This collection will not be a useless burden for the book trade” that is, Serbian folk Songs selected and translated by Roman Zmorski

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.

Key words: Serbian folklore songs, folklore poetry, translations, translator, reception, collection



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Poza granicami schematów. Kilka uwag o polskiej refleksji nad przekładem

Bożena Tokarz

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Going beyond schemas. Some remarks on the Polish reflection upon translation

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.

Key words: Polish translatory reflection, identity, transformations of the original, needs of the receiving literature, repealing of fidelity



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

O destereotypizacji odczytań tekstu oryginału w przekładzie. Rozważania o słoweńskim tłumaczeniu kulinariów w Panu Tadeuszu

Anna Muszyńska-Vizintin

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Source text’s destereotypization of interpretations in the process of translations — some theses about the culinary art of Adam Mickiewicz’s Sir Thaddeuss in Rozka Štefan Slovenian translations

Adam Mickiewicz’s Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray — Polish national epic poem, written in the Romantic period — is a masterpiece, considered to be untranslatable. It contains and codifies certain “patterns of Polishness”: stereotypical depictions of everything that are typically Polish, and indivisibly connected with the Polish (cultural, historical, literary, political) context and environment.

In the article it is asserted that a number of terms and depictions, which, in a certain culture are considered as stereotypical, in a translation change their status: they are neither schematic nor obvious anymore (they lose their stereotypy). The process of “destereotypization” takes place mainly because of the transfer into another language and into another cultural context, and because of the receiver’s (reader’s) different cultural education, who interprets the text from a completely different, new point of view.

Key words: „Polishness”, untranslatable, typical dishes (culinary), intercultural communication, interpretation, destereotypization, cultural context.



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

„Wolność kontrolowana” — o (nie)zależności tłumacza. Uwagi do polskiego przekładu powieści Petry Hůlovej Umělohmotný třípokoj

Dorota Żygadło‑Czopnik

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

„Controlled freedom” — about the (in)dependence of a translator. A few comments about the Polish translation of Petra Hůlová’s Umělohmotný třípokoj

In 2002 in the Czech Republic a very interesting phenomenon occured — an unknown young woman named Petra Hůlová published a book, which caused the biggest literary stir of recent years. The writer’s debut Paměť mojí babičce received the Magnesia Litera Award in the Objev roku (Discovery of the Year) category and won the Lidove noviny’s poll as Kniha roku (Book of the Year). The prose of Umělohmotný třípokoj won the Jiry Orten Award. In 2008, Hulova was awarded with the Josef Škvorecký Award for the novel Stanice Tajga. In every book the writer seems different, which does not mean that she has no individual style. She is undoubtedly the most award‑winning young author today. She captured readers’ attention with the language used, which is a mixture of colloquial Czech and surprising similes. Quite unique is also the bravery of her storytelling. The book we are interested in, Umělohmotný třípokoj, is the fourth novel by the young writer. The Polish translator Julia Różewicz was awarded for the “New face” category of the literary magazine Literatura na Świecie for her translation of the Petra Hulova’s book (in Polish: Plastikowe M3, czyli czeska pornografia, Afera 2013). The goal of this study is to analyze the Czech author’s specific language and to later confront it with the language chosen for its “Czech mutation” by the translator, Julia Różewicz.

Key words: Czech literature, translation, language, interpretation, freedom



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Przekład udomowiony — przekład wyobcowany

Lucyna Spyrka

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Domesticated translation — foreignizated translation

In the theory of translation rooted terms: domesticated translation — foreignizated translation, They are used as the name of the translation strategies. The first of them consits in bringing the author to the reader; the second one — inversely — consists in bringing teh reader to the author. As a replacement are used the terms: exotic and naturalisation in translation. Tranlsation can be seen as a process and a product. Domestication and foreignization also can be understood as the concept of social, whoch relate to existence of tranlsation in the host culture.In this context domestication is not synonymous with acquaintance and it is inclusion of the work in the tradition of the host literature under the same conditions under which literary works are subject to activation of native with complementary the host culture of the text which intensive impacts on its development. Foreignization means the removal of the host culture of the translation, which had already been domesticated in this culture or which was in a situation of translation — guest or which never existed in the host literature, although it has been published. Choice strategy, nor the quality of translation is not always decide od the domestication and foreignization of translation in the host culture. The domestication largely determines the need for the secondary culture of the text. The foreignization may be come with errors in tranlsation but also with a number of factors, which are outside the lyric, independent of the interpretation. The article discusses the specific cases of domestication and foreignization of translation, mainly in Polish — Slovak interliterature communication.



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Przekład — kontekst — polityka. Próba lektury Rozważań o Polsce Draga Jančara

Michał Kopczyk

Język: PL | Data publikacji: 31-12-2020 | Abstrakt | s. 267-281

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.

2020-12-31



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Oblicza melancholii. Szafa Olgi Tokarczuk i jej chorwacki przekład

Katarzyna Majdzik

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

The Faces of Melancholy The Wardrobe by Olga Tokarczuk and its translation into Croatian

The aim of this article is to illustrate the phenomenon of melancholy, its sources, mechanisms and modes of existence. Basing on The Wardrobe by Olga Tokarczuk and its Croatian translation the author tries to demonstrate a relation between melancholy and language, she considers the art as a kind of fight against nothingness (and melancholy) and explores the textual manifestation of melancholic subjectivity. A psychoanalytic approach to melancholy aids to determine the condi­tion of text (the translated text in particular).

The image of melancholy reconstructed from The Wardrobe is a culture-independent phe­nomenon. The universalism of melancholy and the allegorical nature of Tokarczuk’s work remove barriers between original and translated text culture facilitating the act of translation. The main source of cultural barriers, in this case, are the linguistic (mainly grammatical) dif­ferences.

Key words: melancholy, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, translation, interpretation.

 



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Perspektywa tekstowa i perspektywa kulturowa w przekładzie, czyli o kłopotach współistnienia

Bożena Tokarz

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

On co‑existential problemes: Textual and Cultural Perspectives on Translation

The process of translation assumes the existence of two separate mental spaces merging in the translator’s mind, whose freedom is limited by the responsibility towards the author and the reader, on the one hand, and, on the other, the textual imperatives manifested at the conceptual, linguistic, and stylistic levels. The transformations of strategies generating meaning during the process of translation lead to the creation of a new literary subject. The shift from the meaning of the original to the translator and the target culture does not have to imply an erasure of the source as long as it is being interpreted as a manifestation of a specific mental space. The textual perspective constitutes the foundation of translation, inasmuch as it reveals ambiguities from the point of view of the target literature and culture, and points to the necessity to resolve contextualized meanings that represent cultural differences. The encounter between two mental spaces happens due to the interpretation of the mental mechanisms that are inscribed into the text. Grammatical structures, meaning, style and literary conventions are always determined by semantic, intellectual, cultural and anthropological factors.

Key words: translation, translator, freedom, responsibility, text



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Polskie frazeologizmy w słoweńskich przekładach wierszy Wisławy Szymborskiej

Katarzyna Baran

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Polish idioms in Slovenian translations of Wislawa Szymborska poems

Idioms are often used in polish poetry. Due to their expressiveness and vulnerability for lin­guistic operations they are subject to different language games. Szymborska often uses transfor­mation of idioms such as: contamination, removing of element, substitution. In her poetry idioms and their modifications are carriers of irony and jokes, they allow to preserve the intellectual and emotional distance restraint. Translation of idioms is problematic because of their expressiveness, symbolic recognition of world and ambiguity. In idioms is hidden a linguistic picture of world, which requires discovery and interpretation by an translator. Vast majority of idioms and their transformations occurring in the poems of Wislawa Szymborska has its own equivalents. In the case they doesn’t have their own equivalents, translators uses following techniques: free combi­nation of words, tracing, amplification. These techniques causes changes in vocabulary and style, but they doesn’t affect the quality of translation. These changes are related to collision of Polish and Slovenian culture, which causes language and cultural Barriers. Language barriers relate to systemic differences between the languages, are especially noticeable in vocabulary and syntax. Cultural barriers are associated with different degree of influence of German and French culture into Poland and Slovenia, and the expression of irony. The role of the interpreter is to mediate between two cultures, and establish methods to overcome cultural and linguistic barriers.

Key words: idioms, poetry, translation, transformations of idioms, Wislawa Szymborska.



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

O przekładzie tytułu (na przykładzie prozy słoweńskiej)

Monika Gawlak

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

On the Translation of a Title (basing on the Slovenian prose)

The article concerns the issue of the interpreter’s freedom concerning 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, pragmatics), not only because of the need of a complex analysis of the original title — work relationship, but also because of the ‘ambassadorial’ role of — this title in the secondary cultural space. Attention was drawn to the praxis of giving the interpreted collections of short stories (Terra Incognita, Noc w Lublanie) titles already existing in the initial culture and given to other publications. It is malpractice and misleading to a secondary reader. Also, the titles with a remaining foreign dominant element (Čefurzy raus!) and titles significantly different from the original titles (Słońce w dolinie, Białe czereśnie, Pies) were discussed. The space of freedom and the opportunity of a creative attitude appears especially in cases of titles containing a the foreign element, those which do not evoke almost any associations to the secondary reader. In these cases, the most appropriate practice seems to be deleting the original title and giving a new one, one dependent on the work’s interpretation or containing its important subject or topos. Then, the interpreter’s freedom is limited due to the nature of pragmatic and moral imperatives. In choosing the new title, the interpreter should be guided principally by the desire to ensure that the work reaches as many readers in the new cultural space as possible.

Key words: title translation, freedom of the interpreter, translating Slovenian prose, foreignness in translation



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Między polityką a estetyką — o recepcji i przekładzie Przedstawienia „Hamleta” we wsi Głucha Dolna Ivo Brešana

Leszek Małczak

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

Between politics and aesthetic — about the reception and translation of Brešan’s Predstava “Hamleta” u selu Mrduša Donja

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.

Key words: Ivo Brešan, Predstava “Hamleta” u selu Mrduša Donja, reception, translation, politics, aesthetic.



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

From translation to imitation / Od tłumaczenia do naśladowania (tłum. Wojciech Tokarz)

Richard Jackson

Język: PL | Data publikacji: | Abstrakt

From translation to imitation

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.

Key words: Translation, Imitation, poetry, paraphrase, adaptation



Czasopismo: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

Wildemania — przekład Salomé Oscara Wilde’a a literatura chorwacka na początku XX wieku

Igor Medić

Język: EN | Data publikacji: 16-09-2021 | Abstrakt | s. 1-22

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.

2021-09-16