TY - JOUR
TI - “Shakespeare, he was quite a gifted fellow.” The Beginning of Stanisław Barańczak’s Career as a Translator
AU - Walczak, Sebastian
TI - “Shakespeare, he was quite a gifted fellow.” The Beginning of Stanisław Barańczak’s Career as a Translator
AB - 
	This biographical paper describes Stanisław Barańczak’s first attempts at translating poetry as a high school student in 1964. The aim of the paper is to present the birth of his philological passion, and to answer the question of how Barańczak emerges a translator. The presentation is based on six unpublished translations of Russian and English language poems found in the correspondence of Barańczak and in the hitherto unknown memories of his school friends.
	The analysis focuses on the technique of Barańczak’s translation work, on reconstructing his motivations, selection of texts for translation, self-assessment of the results, opinions on the authors of the original and evaluation of pop-culture. In addition, the paper offers several facts from the private life of the teenage translator,
	among others the decision to study Polish philology, as well as his relations with his high school colleagues and teachers.
VL - Issues in English
IS - Special Issue 2019 – Translation History in the Polish Context
PY - 2019
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 107
EP - 119
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.19.007.11265
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/shakespeare-he-was-quite-a-gifted-fellow-the-beginning-of-stanislaw-baranczaks-career-as-a-translator
KW - Stanisław Barańczak
KW - biography
KW - debut
KW - juvenilia
KW - translations
KW - manuscripts