Open AccessTłumaczki chleb powszedni. Ludmiła Marjańska i Mary Swann
Author(s) -
Ewa Rajewska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
poznańskie studia polonistyczne. seria literacka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2450-4947
pISSN - 1233-8680
DOI - 10.14746/pspsl.2018.33.17
Subject(s) - poetry , lyrics , art , literature
The article discusses a translation of a Carol Shields’s novel Swann. A Mystery (1987) by a Polish poet Ludmiła Marjańska (Zagadka wiecznego pióra, 1998). Marjańska’s translation is not an easy one to assess: it contains some shifts as well as simple mistakes, but Polish versions of lyrics quoted in the novel as written by a mysterious, unacknowledged (and non-existing) poet Mary Swann are undeniably its strongest point. What makes them more interesting, they show close affinity to poems by Emily Dickinson translated by Marjańska – and to her own poetry.