TY - JOUR
TI - How to Translate “the Great”? Polish Translators and the Masters of French Classicism: A Review

	of Michał Bajer’s Klasycyzm. Przekład. Prestiż (2020)
AU - Miszalska, Jadwiga
TI - How to Translate “the Great”? Polish Translators and the Masters of French Classicism: A Review

	of Michał Bajer’s Klasycyzm. Przekład. Prestiż (2020)
AB - 
	Michał Bajer’s book offers an interesting approach to older translations. The author discusses Polish renderings of Corneille’s and Racine’s tragedies in the broadly defined Enlightenment (1740–1830). He looks at the translations from three perspectives: analysing changes at the level of rhetoric, at the level of poetics, and examining the paratextual influences, i.e., the critics’ statements with regard to both original texts and translations. The discourse is set in a historical, literary, and social context, in which the French playwrights appear as models of the classicist perfection of style, an object of imitation, which, however, undergoes constant negotiation on the part of the translators. The book proposes an interesting combination of literary, philological, and sociological tools to create a multi-layered picture of the Polish reception of the two authors.
VL - 2022
IS - Issue 45
PY - 2023
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 157
EP - 168
DO - 10.4467/16891864PC.22.014.17175
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/jak-przekladac-wielkich-polscy-tlumacze-wobec-mistrzow-francuskiego-klasycyzmu
KW - Racine
KW - Corneille
KW - tragedy
KW - classicism
KW - translation