Rzeczy i natura a (nadto) mówiące ja. Przekłady a wiersze Miłosza
Things and Nature and the (too much) Speaking I. Miłosz’s Translations and Poems

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the connections between Miłosz’s poetry and his translation work based on his translations and interpretations of the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Chinese poets, especially the poem “Another Spring” by Tu Fu. The subject of particular interest is Miłosz’s vision of “realistic poetry” and poetic epiphany related to the attempt to create/translate poems in which “the voice of the subject disappears”. The author also examines how Polish literary criticism accepted Miłosz’s translations and interpretations, relating them to the poet’s own poems. The article proves that Miłosz practiced the art of translation quite freely, in the interpretation of foreign poems he often used generalizations and unauthorized comparisons, which was not much discussed during the poet’s lifetime, and even after his death the dialogue with Miłosz as an interpreter and translator of poetry was not very polemical in the country. Combinations of Miłosz’s translations and his own works were often used as the poet had planned it, without any attempt to verify the translation or the interpretation associated with it. The world’s “realistic poetry”, in which the voice of the subject disappears, was largely the poet’s creation, and the connections with his own work confirm the dependence of Miłosz’s translations/interpretations on his own poems and insurmountable problems with the presence of the lyrical subject.

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