'THE LESS DECEIVED'? OR ON TWO TRANSLATIONS OF A POEM BY PHILIP LARKIN ('The Less Deceived'? Mniej oszukani, czyli o dwoch przekladach Philipa Larkina)

• Authors: Szymanska Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article approaches the problem of Polish reception of Philip Larkin, one of the most influential 20th-century English authors. The image of the poet is shaped principally by two translations: one by Stanislaw Baranczak (1991) and the other by Jacek Dehnel (2008), both of which contributed to important literary critical debates in Poland and diversified the reader's perception of Larkin influenced by Jerzy Jarniewicz and Czeslaw Milosz. The article presents a case study of one poem from High Windows collection, The Building, accompanied by a comparative analysis of two different translation strategies and extra-textual factors which modulated distinct poetological shapes of the renderings. As a consequence of the translators' choices, the Polish Larkin bifurcates into two images: Baranczak's metaphysical and 'brightened' version, and Dehnel's skeptical and a more subversive one.

Keywords

EN

CZESLAW MILOSZ; JERZY JARNIEWICZ; LARKIN'S 'THE BUILDING'; PHILIP LARKIN; STANISLAW BARANCZAK

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 157-169
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szymanska Katarzyna

• K. Szymanska, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09857