Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz
Przekład modernistyczny w kulturach słowiańskich. Kilka uwag wstępnych / Modernist Translation in Slavic Cultures. A Few Introductory Remarks
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.
Галина Лесная Роль перевода в становлении поэтики раннего украинского модернизма начала ХХ в. / The Role of Translation in the Formation of the Poetics of Early Ukrainian Modernism at the Beginning of the 20th Century
The development of modernism in the history of Ukrainian literature at the beginning of the 20th century was accompanied by a discussion in which the younger generation of writers opposed the conservative attitudes of the elders. The variety of artistic trends of that time led to the complexity of defining many aspects of the formation of modernism, including the question of the chronological framework of Ukrainian modernism as a phenomenon, as well as the origins of the ideological shift in Ukrainian culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The task of mastering the new content of contemporary “foreign” literature was set by the literary groups “Moloda Muza” and “Ukrayins’ka hata”, who turned the development of the poetics of modernism into their aesthetic credo. It is important to determine what role literary translation, that Ukrainian writers in the early 20th century attached great importance, played in this process.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/11718
Igor Medić, Wilde about Wilde – The translation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in Croatian literature of the early 20th century
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/11342
Bojana Aćamović, Under the Winged Sign of “Albatross”: Translations of Poe and Whitman and the Development of Serbian Avant-garde
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/10966
Žarka Svirčev, Albatross translation project
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/11389
Robert Grošelj “Rekonsi”: prevodi Kosovelovih konsov in Chestermanove prevajalske strategije
Alenka Jensterle-Doležal, Prevod kot kulturni in literarni artefakt. Premerjava dveh čeških prevodov Prešernove pesmi “Slovo od mladosti”
Katarzyna Lukas Tako rzecze Zaratustra Wacława Berenta: młodopolska maniera czy nowatorski eksperyment? / Wacław Berent’s Tako rzecze Zaratustra (Translation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra): Young-Poland-Mannerism or an Innovative Experiment?
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/11563
Barbara Bibik Potrzeba tłumacza / The Need for a Translator
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/10413
Andrij Saweneć Modernistyczna obsceniczność w przekładzie: ukraińskie i rosyjskie tłumaczenia “Kochanka Lady Chatterlay” D.H. Lawrence’a u schyłku ZSRR / Modernist Obscenity in Translation: Ukrainian and Russian Translations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence in the Late USSR
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/10481
Magdalena Ślawska Problem sceniczności w polskim przekładzie ‘Trylogii dubrownickiej’ Iva Vojnovicia / The Problem of Performability in the Polish Translation of A Trilogy of Dubrovnik by Ivo Vojnović
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.
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https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PLS/article/view/10627
Lucyna Spyrka Wokół słowackich przekładów Lata w Nohant Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza /
Beata Kalęba Długa droga do litewskiego przekładu Traktatu Poetyckiego Czesława Miłosza
Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik O Zapomnianym świetle Jakuba Demla i jego polskim przekładzie
