Translating Balcerzan and Barańczak into English

An introduction

Kasia Szymańska

Trinity College Dublin
Oxford University

in: Edward Balcerzan, Stanisław Barańczak, Literature from literature, , sdvig press, 2020

Abstract

Balcerzan is known primarily as the author of “theory-orientated contributions” to Polish translation studies, written in the spirit of East European structuralism. As for Barańczak – the most prominent Polish translator of anglophone verse and a leading figure of the tradition often referred to as Generation 1968 (or Nowa Fala [New Wave]) – he represents the more analytic or critical branch of the discipline: his approach consists in dissecting “individual case studies”, without providing a more comprehensive framework for his ensuing “fragmented comments”. At the same time, both Balcerzan and Barańczak harken back to the same academic tradition and their ideas are firmly wedded to a unique legacy, that of the Poznań structuralist circle.

Cited authors

Balcerzan Edward

Barańczak Stanisław