The Art of Translating Alasdair Gray

• Authors: Lewandowska-Rodak, Dominika

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to address and explore the problem of rendering Alasdair Gray’s prose in Polish, by focusing on his works’ extra-narrative elements. It seeks to identify the difficulties and limitations in translating an author of this kind – a writer, but also, and perhaps primarily, an artist, whose texts function as book-objects, relying heavily on artwork as well as typographical experimentation. The analysis, centred on Gray’s Lanark, 1982, Janine and Poor Things, leads to a discussion of the broader question of translating these books in which the actual text is only part of the story.

Keywords

EN

Alasdair Gray; Scottish fiction; translation; visual art; typography; book design; book-object

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 145-155

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Lewandowska-Rodak, Dominika

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.12

Biblioteka Nauki

889055