Modernist Obscenity in Translation: Ukrainian and Russian Translations of „Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence in the Late USSR Cover Image

Modernistyczna obsceniczność w przekładzie: ukraińskie i rosyjskie tłumaczenia „Kochanka Lady Chatterley” D.H. Lawrence’a u schyłku ZSRR
Modernist Obscenity in Translation: Ukrainian and Russian Translations of „Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence in the Late USSR

Author(s): Andrij Saweneć
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: D. H. Lawrence; modernism; obscenity; taboo; translation

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on Ukrainian and Russian translations of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1989 and 1990. The framework for the analysis is provided by Loren Glass’s idea of a significant role of obscene vocabulary in the aesthetics of the twentieth-century Anglo-American literary modernism. The comparison of the two translations shows significant differences in the translators’ approaches to rendering Lawrence’s sexual-based language.

  • Issue Year: 11/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-23
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish