Pan Kiehot Güntera Grassa w serii przekładowej. Naśladowanie, wyobraźnia, tłumaczenie
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne i Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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Günter Grass’s Pan Kiehot in translation series. Imitation, imagination, translation
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Pan Kiehot by Günter Grass is one of many literary incarnations of
Cervantes’s Don Quijote. Grass created his hero in a double manner:
the character exists in the poem Pan Kiehot, published in Gleisdreieck
in 1960, and a fragment of a chapter in The Tin Drum, the novel published
in 1959. The poem has been translated six times into Polish, by
Jan Koprowski, Krzysztof Karasek, Bolesław Fac, Zdzisław Jaskuła,
Wojciech Woźniak and Ryszard Sobieszczański), whereas The Tin Drum,
only once, by Sławomir Błaut. The article analyses all the translations
into Polish, as well as the translation into Kashubian by Jan Trepczyk, in
the context of the notion of translation series and textualisation series,
proposed by Marta Skwara, and with reference to theorists of quixotism,
such as Arne Melberg, Josè Ortega y Gasset and Michel Foucault, as well
as to German and Polish critics of Grass’s work.
The author draws conclusions about the challenge of a different form
of interpretation, multiplied interpretation, which is facing the reader
of a translation or textualisation series. Every translator who works on
a text that has been translated before, must face various anxieties: “the
anxiety of influence”, which is often coupled by horror vacui, and fear
of imperfect rendition of source-texts meanings (as described by Jerzy
Jarniewicz). Thanks to translation series, and works that constitute textualisation
series together with translations, Grass’s Pan Kiehot is inscribed
in entirely new interpretative framework: each new translation,
thus, constitutes a challenge for the translator and for the imagination
of a reader of the series.
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Günter Grass, Pan Kichot, translation series, textualisation series
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2014, nr 23 (43), s. 118-147