Barańczak i Sosnowski przekładają „The Map” Elizabeth Bishop. Między mimesis a deziluzją, ocaleniem a nicością
Barańczak and Sosnowski Translate Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map”: Between Mimesis and Disillusion, Redemption and Nothingness

Summary/Abstract: This article examines Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Map” and its Polish translations by Stanisław Barańczak and Andrzej Sosnowski. The first section outlines key interpretations of Bishop’s work; presenting her as a poet negotiating the tension between vision (mimesis) and language (disillusion). Here; I draw on Geoffrey Hartman’s reading of imitatio Christi; which he understood as a process of individuation. In the second section; I interpret Barańczak’s translation as an expression of a mimetic and individualising theory of translation and of Bishop’s poetry; heavily influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The third section considers Sosnowski’s version as a manifestation of an antimimetic and de-subjectivising approach to both translation and the reading of Bishop’s work; inspired by his reading of Paul de Man. The conclusion highlights the paradoxes inherent in both approaches and suggests possible directions for further interpretation; particularly with regard to Sosnowski’s translations; which are yet to be investigated in detail.

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