TY - JOUR
TI - The Onions Strung on the Spire or What Can You See in the Polish Translation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
AU - Kłos, Anita
TI - The Onions Strung on the Spire or What Can You See in the Polish Translation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
AB - 
	Invisible Cities(1972) is – despite the title – the most visible book of Italo Calvino. Calvino included visibility in his literary testament, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, as one of the fundamental values of literary creation. The author often emphasized the significance of visibility in his writings and accented its close relation 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 twice 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 the various details of Calvino’s images, recognizing that in Polish some terms would sound too exotic, encyclopedic, and elitist. Especially noteworthy are her translations of architectural and art historical terms, sometimes leading to a change in the style characteristics of buildings evoked by Calvino’s text. The translator’s decisions make the images of Invisible Cities even more surrealistic and mythical
VL - 2017
IS - Numer 35 – Słowo i obraz w przekładzie 2
PY - 2018
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 39
EP - 56
DO - 10.4467/16891864PC.17.011.8224
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/cebulki-nawleczone-na-iglice-czyli-co-widac-w-polskim-przekladzie-niewidzialnych-miast-itala-calvina
KW - Italo Calvino
KW - visibility
KW - reception of the Italian literature in Poland
KW - image in translation