Filmowa kronika dzieciństwa. Dolina Issy w przekładzie na język szwedzki i norweski

• Authors: Paulina Horbowicz , Dominika Skrzypek

Title variants

EN

NEWSREEL ABOUT CHILDHOOD. THE ISSA VALLEY IN SWEDISH AND NORWEGIAN

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz is a childhood chronicle inspired by the author’s own experiences in contemporary Lithuania, which used to be part of Poland in his youth. His narrative is rich in stylistic devices, which render it film-like: the background information is provided in the simple present tense (even when such details are presented in the middle of a paragraph formulated in the past tense); nominal phrases and sentences lack predicates, which makes them similar to stage directions. Miłosz also uses a number of dialectal expressions (the so-called Lithuanian Polish). In the existing Swedish and Norwegian versions of the novel the dialectal elements are not translated adequately. Moreover, most of the stylistic devices are lost: the grammatical tense is changed so as to fi t the rest of the paragraph, nominalizations are presented as verb phrases and predicates are inserted where there were none in the original. Even if readable, the Swedish and Norwegian texts are not as creative as Miłosz’s prose.

Keywords

EN

The Issa Valley; Norwegian language; Swedish language; dialects in translation; nominalization; stylistics in translation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 290-307

Dates

online

2012-05-30

Contributors

author

Paulina Horbowicz

• Katedra Skandynawistyki Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

author

Dominika Skrzypek

• Katedra Skandynawistyki Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16891864PC.12.020.0447