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Paul Maar’s Sams: a Revolutionary Bestseller in German Children’s Literature and its Polish Rendition

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Pieciul-Karmińska E.

Filoteknos

2020

issue 10

427-437

Paul Maar (born in 1937) is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is widely known for his bestselling series of books about Sams (1973) – a strange creature – a mixture of a child, a monkey and a pig that can grant wishes. Sams is an incorporation of anarchy and playfulness and in this way resembles Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Langstrumpf, but first of all it refers to E. T. A. Hoffmanns fantastic tale “The strange child” (1817). Hoffmann’s and Paul Maar’s stories reveal a lot of similarities and both are revolutionary as far as the methods of children’s education are concerned. Both underline the importance of play, creativity and freedom for children’s development. The first book about Sams was translated into Polish in 2009, more than 35 years after its German premiere. The Polish version was probably too late to be able to play a similarly revolutionary role. The connection to E. T. A. Hoffmann’s “The Strange Child” could also not be noticed as its Polish rendition was published even later – in 2014 (translated by the author of the paper). But the shape of Polish translation can also be one of the reasons why Sams did not gain a comparable popularity as the original story. Polish Sams – due to some modifications in the translation – is a much more well-behaved and disciplined creature than the anarchic and playful German Sams.

Przyjemność intertekstu (w przekładzie). Casus Barthes’a i Lewańskiej

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Szwebs W.

Forum Poetyki

2019

issue 18

76-85

In this article, I interpret two unusual intertextual references present in the Polish translation of Barthes’s The pleasure of the text by Ariadna Lewańska. Such intertexts are unusual because they are not rooted in the intertextuality of the original: allusions to the classic works of Polish literature are inserted by the translator in the seemingly neutral and “transparent” fragments of the French text. I comment on the motivations behind them, their status, and potential impact on the reader. My analysis was inspired by observations, theses, and postulates derived from The pleasure of the text, which was treated as a theory of translation.

Tekst jest interpretacją dwóch nietypowych nawiązań intertekstualnych obecnych w polskim przekładzie Przyjemności tekstu Rolanda Barthes’a dokonanym przez Ariadnę Lewańską. Nietypowość owych intertekstów tkwi w tym, że nie są one motywowane intertekstualnością oryginału – aluzje do ważnych tekstów polskiej tradycji literackiej pojawiają się w miejscu niezwracających uwagi, przezroczystych sformułowań tekstu francuskiego. W artykule zostaje skomentowana motywacja, status i potencjalny sposób oddziaływania niespotykanych gestów tłumaczki. Inspirację dla komentarza stanowią obserwacje, tezy i postulaty pochodzące z Przyjemności tekstu, która została potraktowana jako teoria przekładu.

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Paul Maar’s Sams: a Revolutionary Bestseller in German Children’s Literature and its Polish Rendition

Przyjemność intertekstu (w przekładzie). Casus Barthes’a i Lewańskiej