(AUTO-)BIOGRAFIA OKŁADKOWA I JEJ DŁUGIE TRWANIE NA PRZYKŁADZIE PARATEKSTÓW POLSKICH TŁUMACZEŃ UTWORÓW OTY FILIPA
The Cover (Auto)Biography and Its Long-Term Persistence: On the Examples of Paratexts in Polish Translations of Ota Filip’s Works
Author(s): Anna GnotSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Czech literature; Ota Filip; paratexts; literary translation; biography; autobiography
Summary/Abstract: The biographical note featured on book covers constitutes a genre that offers the first readerly encounter with the author’s life, reflecting the dynamic evolution of their literary work. Its status, however, undergoes significant transformation when the continuity of literary communication is disrupted – for instance, within émigré, underground, samizdat/tamizdat, regional, or translational circulation. This article undertakes a reconstruction of the biographical image of the Czech writer Ota Filip as it emerges from an analysis of selected paratexts accompanying his works, spanning from the late 1960s and culminating in the information provided in the most recent Polish translations of his novels: "Sedmý životopis" ["The Seventh Biography"] (2022) and "Kavárna Slavia" ["Café Slavia"] (2024).
Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo [PFLIT]
- Issue Year: 2026
- Issue No: 16 (19)
- Page Range: 397-412
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish
