%0 Journal Article %T Ilya Erenburg’s Life and Death of Nikolay Kurbov as the Basis for Bruno Jasieński’s Novel I Burn Paris %A Świeściak, Alina %A Fast, Piotr %J Przekładaniec %V Issues in English %R 10.4467/16891864ePC.22.012.16932 %N Special Issue 2022 – East-West. Transactions %P 91-102 %K Ilya Erenburg, Bruno Jasieński, I Burn Paris, Life and Death of Nikolay Kurbov, translation, polemics, contexts %@ 1425-6851 %D 2022 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/ilya-erenburgs-life-and-death-of-nikolay-kurbov-as-the-basis-for-bruno-jasienskis-novel-i-burn-paris %X Bruno Jasieński wrote his novel I Burn Paris after translating Ilya Erenburg’s Life and Death of Nikolay Kurbov. This article analyses the complex relationships between these two works and investigates how their artistic and ideological facets intertwine in both positive and negative ways. Translated by Piotr Plichta. * Originally published in Polish in Przekładaniec vol. 41, 2020 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864PC.21.002.13584).