TY - JOUR
TI - Onions Strung on the Spire, or What You Can See in the Polish Translation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
AU - Kłos, Anita
TI - Onions Strung on the Spire, or What You Can See in the Polish Translation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
AB - 
	Despite its title, Invisible Cities (1972) is the most visible book by Italo Calvino. Calvino included visibility in his literary testament, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, as one of the fundamental values of literary creation. He often emphasized the significance of visibility in his writings and pointed out its close connection with exactitude, another value that he felt important for the next millennium. Translated into Polish by Alina Kreisberg, the book was first published in 1975 and republished in 2005 and 2013. The translator, who considers the book a record of an inner journey “around one’s head”, openly admits to having modified various details of Calvino’s images, recognizing that certain terms would sound too exotic, encyclopaedic and elitist in Polish. Her translations of architectural and art historical terms are particularly noteworthy,  leading sometimes to a change in the style of buildings evoked by Calvino’s text. The translator’s decisions make the  images of Invisible Cities even more surrealistic and mythical.
VL - Issues in English
IS - Special Issue 2018 – Word and Image in Translation
PY - 2018
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 101
EP - 119
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.18.014.9836
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/onions-strung-on-the-spire-or-what-you-can-see-in-the-polish-translation-of-italo-calvinos-invisible-cities
KW - Italo Calvino
KW - visibility
KW - reception of Italian literature in Poland
KW - image in translation