Józef Birkenmajer jako tłumacz poezji anglojęzycznej (Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe)

• Authors: Aleksandra Budrewicz

Title variants

EN

Józef Birkenmajer as a translator of English and American poetry (Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Allan Poe)

Abstracts

EN

Józef Birkenmajer (1897–1939) was literary scholar and translator from classical and modern languages. He formulated the concept of ‘co-creative translation’, which assumes that the translator and the author of the original text enjoy the same status of creators. Although he translated a host of English novels, what he liked most was highly rhythmic verse, a preference not hard to detect in the list of his publications. His translations of Rudyard Kipling belong to the classics of the genre. By giving full attention to the poems and rhyming couples in Kipling's stories, Birkenmajer pioneered the notion of integral translation. His habit of lacing his journalism and other forms of writing with memorable verses from Kipling's books led many Polish readers to see Kipling primarily as a poet. Birkenmajer was also a translator of the poems and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, on whose ‘Raven’ he worked in late 1937/early 1938 (it was eventually published in April 1938). While his experiments with obsolete vocabulary and dialect words were on the whole unsuccessful, many of his translations continue to spellbind new generations of readers.

Keywords

EN

English and American literature in Polish translation; poetry translation; Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936); Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849); Józef Birkenmajer (1897–1939)

PL

Birkenmajer; Kipling; Poe; przekład; wiersze

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 843-864

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Budrewicz

• Institute of English Studies, Pedagogical University of Kraków

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/rl.2021.138758

Biblioteka Nauki

2170187