„Przekład jako doświadczenie obcego” w kontekście przekładów literatury fantasy

Abstract

„The translation as the experience of the foreign” in the context of translations of fantasy literature

Translation as the experience of the foreign is understood either as the relation of what is domestic to the foreign or as an experience for the foreign itself. According to a thesis of Anton Popovič, the readers expect and want the translation to be a foreign product when viewed against the native works. On the ground of theoretical reflections of Popovič and Bergmann an attempt was made to show the propriety of occurrences of the foreign elements in Polish and Russian fantasy literature, and above all, the fulfillment of the intentions of the authors of original works in translation. Words and phrases that are connected with the occultism and folklore were analyzed, as well as elements of local dialects that contributed to specific vocabulary that create the flavor of characters. These are the elements of the presented world: names of nations, phenomena and objects, monsters and mythical beings. The mentioned elements were extracted from both the original and translated texts and examined for maintenance of the tone of the original. Afterwards a division was made into the elements preserved, dropped or changed in translation. The final conclusions relate to the intertextual tradition of the fantasy literature.