EXPLICIT INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES IN BOLESLAW LESMIAN'S POETRY AND ITS RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS (Interteksty o wysokim stopniu eksplicytnosci w poezji Boleslawa Lesmiana i jej rosyjskich przekladach)

• Authors: Marta Kazmierczak
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article surveys the problem of the intertextuality in the translation of poetry. The works of the Polish modernist Boleslaw Lesmian and their Russian translations are examined for explicit intertextual signals. It reveals that straightforwardness of reference does not necessarily facilitate the transfer. On the contrary, explicit intertextuality may daunt the translators. Apparently choosing to evade an additional 'coefficient of difficulty' posed by a quotation or allusion, they tend to leave certain poems untranslated. In some cases the translators eliminate the intertexts altogether or remove the quotations the relation cannot be re-created if only one of the interacting poems possesses a target-language variant. Moreover, culture-bound references inevitably lose in translation part of their connotative meaning, unmotivated by the original also turn out to be unsuccessful translative solutions. As a result, the picture of Lesmian's oeuvre presented to the foreign recipient may be incomplete or deformed.

Keywords

EN

INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES' PROBLEM; LESMIAN BOLESLAW - POETRY; TRANSLATION'S PROBLEMS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 46-55
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marta Kazmierczak

• Marta Kazmierczak, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Instytut Rusycystyki, ul. Lipowa 8, 90-568 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08204