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Co znaczą te Itaki? Na marginesie polskich przekładów Itaki Konstandinosa Kawafisa

Michał Bzinkowski

Przekładaniec, Issue 26 – Przekład mistrzów, 2012, pp. 179-193

https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864PC.12.011.0844

This article analyses all Polish translations of the well-known poem by Constantine P. Cavafy (1863– 1933), Ithaca (Ιθάκη). Comparing the beginnings of the fi rst stanza and the last stanza, which are fundamental to the comprehension of the poem, I point to the main differences between the original and its Polish versions. In my analysis I concentrate on the idiosyncrasies of Cavafy’s language, so challenging to translators of this poetry. My parallel reading of the translations by Zygmunt Kubiak, Nikos Chadzinikolau, Czesław Miłosz and Antoni Libera reveals striking discrepancies between the original text and the proposed versions, most noticeably Libera’s.

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O poszukiwaniu i odnajdywaniu pustki. Wokół antycznych peregrynacji Jorgosa Seferisa

Michał Bzinkowski

Przekładaniec, Issue 18-19 – Antiqua ac nova, 2007, pp. 168-191

The 20th-century Greek poet Yorgos Seferis (the penname of Yorgos Seferiadis, 1900–1971) is considered to be one of the most influential Modern Greek poets. However, his hermetic, at times obscure, poetry is not widely read outside Greece and English-speaking countries, even though it was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1963. The article discusses Seferis’s use of antiquity and investigates the ways in which Modern Greek can draw inspiration from ancient literary sources. It attempts to define the function of mythological allusions in the poems translated for “Przekładaniec” as well as presents some of the difficulties the translator of Modern Greek poetry may come across.

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Michał Bzinkowski

Instytut Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, Poland

Instytut Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, Poland