'WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES DISALLOW TO TELL THE TRUTH...'. THE UNPUBLISHED GERMAN TRANSLATION OF MARIA DABROWSKA'S 'MORNING STAR'

• Authors: Glebicka E.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article refers to Maria Dabrowska's problems connected with the translations of her works into German, and especially with the collection 'Morning Star', in which the most important story was 'Countryside Wedding'. The paper evokes the political background of Dabrowska's difficult contacts with the German publishers, being different in East and West Germany. While the publishing problems in the German Democratic Republic resulted from fear of presenting the reader a new formula of Polish literature called later 'thaw literature', in Western Germany, if disposed of a special political meaning, the texts were unattractive and old-fashioned. Atmosphere of scandal that accompanied the ban on publishing 'Countryside Wedding' indicated more than German readers could learn by reading it. Dabrowska's correspondence with the German publishers reveals the absurd of censorship requirements in the German Democratic Republic in times when it was much more lenient even in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Dabrowska's fight for the change of afterword to the collection of 'Der dritte Herbst' shows the scope of hypocrisy about the newest Polish history in German propaganda around 1960. The correspondence also suggests that the high level of translation of the collection 'Morning Star' and others was significantly added by Jan Pierzchała, who at this time worked in Berlin as cultural attaché. Quotations from Dabrowska's letters reveal also her views of the art of translation.

Keywords

EN

'COUNTRYSIDE WEDDING'; 'DER DRITTE HERBST'; 'MORNING STAR'; DABROWSKA M.; DABROWSKA'S M. WORKS TRANSLATIONS INTO GERMAN

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 97
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 111-126
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Glebicka E.

• E. Glebicka, Instytut Badan Literackich PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01343019