Konteksty Kultury, Volume 18 Issue 1, 2021, pp. 4-31
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.21.002.13532
Przekładaniec, Issue 25/2011– Between Miłosz and Milosz, Issues in English, pp. 59-79
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.13.016.1205
Przekładaniec, Special Issue 2019 – Translation and Memory, Issues in English, pp. 7-25
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.19.009.11384The article discusses the testimonies of bystanders as presented to the public in Claude Lanzmann’s documentary Shoah. It proposes to apply norms and practices developed within Holocaust studies to the analysis of the victims’ testimonies in the emerging field of bystander studies. The Polish bystanders’ utterances in the documentary were edited and simplified through the process of interpretation and re-translation; this inaccurate rendition has been used in Holocaust debates and the lack of sensibility to this aspect of communication in Lanzmann’s film may result in skewed interpretation of the bystanders’ engagement in the scene of violence. The analysis proves that without renewed scrutiny to the bystanders’ speech Holocaust research may lose some important insights. Signs of violence impact, traces of traumatization or brutalization, specificity of cognitive and affective response may be overlooked. The paper calls for an universalizing epistemic approach to all types of the speech emerging from the Holocaust, beyond the (debatable) divisions of its social fabric into victims, perpetrators and bystanders.
Przekładaniec, Issue 17 – Poezja i proza przekładu, 2006, pp. 53-66
This article outlines some of the translation decisions encountered in the process of translating into English a single poem by Tadeusz Różewicz: “14 lipca 2004 – w nocy,” from the poet’s 2004 collection wyjście. I describe some of the major issues of word choice and syntax that the translation involved. Furthermore, I compare the esthetics of Polish versus English-language poetry, and consider the difficulties of rendering Różewicz’s voice in English. Lastly, I set the translation of this poem in the broader context of Różewicz’s recent poetry–the translation in question is part of a forthcoming English-language collection of Różewicz’s three most recent books, wyjście, szara strefa (2002) and nożyk profesora (2001).