INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS IN A COLLECTIVIST IDEOLOGY: TWO CZECH TRANSLATIONS OF I. L. PERETZ’S SHORT STORY BONTSHE SHVAYG

• Authors: Krappmann Marie
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is focused on Czech translations of Yiddish literature, specifically on two versions of “Bontshe shvayg” (Bontshe the Silent, 1894) by Polish-Yiddish author I. L. [Isaac Leib] Peretz published in the 1960s. The main aims of the analysis are to show: 1) how far the initial norm correlated with the explicit commentaries in the epitexts and peritexts; and 2) to what extent translators Jakub Markovič and Stanislav Taraszka were able to individually shape the initial norms within the frame of a collectivist ideology. Understanding the factors that influenced the translators’ decisions can provide insight into the role of ideology in shaping the preliminary, initial and operational norm.

Keywords

EN

YIDDISH LITERATURE; TRANSLATION; I. L. PERETZ; COMMUNIST REGIME; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; PARATEXTS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 27 – 41

Contributors

author

Krappmann Marie

• Department of German Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7007-1707

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/WLS.2024.16.3.3