Published: 2019-07-23

Manipulating Bulgakov: "a magnificent, brand-new" translation of "The Master and Margarita"

Aleksander Wawrzyńczak

Abstract

The main aim of this article is the analysis of the new translation into Polish the Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece,  The Master and Margarita, which was made by Barbara Dochnalik and published at 2018. This edition also includes two interpreter’s afterwards. Both texts are full of controversial facts about the writer’s biography, even more, the majority of them are not covered with the documents about Bulgakov’s life and the story of the creation of his novel. Some of interpretation of several motifs of The Master and Margarita, made by B. Dochnalik, are questionable, too. But the main doubts are caused by the way of translation and its quality. The translation made by Dochnalik includes some fragments, which wasn’t created by Bulgakov and highly likely were putted into the polish text of the novel by the translator, probably because of her aim to prove her own interpretation of The Master and Margarita.

This article let to know the most ridiculous samples of the translator’s manipulations with the Bulgakov’s novel, which could be called scandalous.

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Wawrzyńczak, A. (2019). Manipulating Bulgakov: "a magnificent, brand-new" translation of "The Master and Margarita". Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (3). https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.7624

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No. 3 (2019)
Published: 2019-07-31


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

Publisher
Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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