Papier, maszyna, oko. O materialności w przekładzie na podstawie listów Julii Dickstein-Wieleżyńskiej do Raffaele Pettazzoniego
Paper, Machine, Eye. On the Materiality of Translation in the Letters of Julia Dickstein-Wieleżyńska to Raffaele Pettazzoni As Michael Cronin and Karin Littau

Summary/Abstract: As Michael Cronin and Karin Littau highlight in their seminal studies on materiality and translation, “translation without tools simply does not exist.” In recent years, there has been growing interest among translation scholars in the material aspects of translational phenomena, approached from various interdisciplinary perspectives. The present study explores the role of objects in the translation process, particularly during the analogue era, through the letters written by Julia Dickstein-Wieleżyńska (1881–1943) to her friend and academic mentor, Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), a prominent Italian scholar of the history of religions. The extensive collection of her previously unpublished letters is preserved in Pettazzoni’s archive, now housed at the public library “Giulio Cesare Croce” in San Giovanni in Persiceto.Dickstein-Wieleżyńska was a scholar of literature and philosophy, a poet, journalist, educational and feminist activist, and a literary and scientific translator, working from multiple languages into Polish and from Polish into Italian. The letters frequently reference the material elements and the technosphere of her translation work. Operating in a relatively provincial academic center like Warsaw, she contended with the absence of an established tradition in Italian studies. Additionally, she faced disruptions due to political upheaval, which caused shortages of various goods and hindered international intellectual exchange. Drawing on the aforementioned archival material, this article will analyse the role of translation tools and their accessibility for translation work (Paper), the entanglement of humans and objects in translation through assemblages and networks (Machine), and the ergonomic and bodily conditions affecting a translator’s work (Eye).

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