Když autor překládá sám sebe: poznámky k češtině Kunderových románů

• Authors: Zlata Kufnerová

Title variants

EN

When an author translates himself: some observations on the Czech language of Milan Kundera’s novels

DE

Wenn ein Schriftsteller sich selbst übersetzt: bemerkungen zur tschechischen Sprache in Milan Kunderas Romanen

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Some bilingual (or multilingual) writers translate their works from their mother tongue (mainly one of the so-called “languages of limited diffusion”) into an international language or write in both languages. This type of literary translation is called “author’s translation”. Milan Kundera is one such writer. The linguistic analysis of Milan Kundera’s novels “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “Immortality” demonstrates that the Czech language of these literary works, written during the author’s so-called French period, is to a certain extent deformed on all levels of linguistic expression. The author’s literary texts written and/or published after his emigration to France provide, in a certain sense, unique evidence of the fact that even a prestigious writer can lose the feeling for his mother tongue if he is not living permanently in its milieu.

Keywords

CS

Milan Kundera; autorský překlad; Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí; Nesmrtelnost

EN

Milan Kundera; author’s translation; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Immortality

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 259-267
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zlata Kufnerová

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic