Balada o křiwéj budźe Óndry Łysohorskiego w przekładzie Mariny Cwietajewej
Balada o křiwéj budźe by Óndra Łysohorsky Translated by Marina Tsvetaeva

Summary/Abstract: The author examines the figure of Óndra Łysohorsky, a Lachian poet little known in Poland, and analyzes the translation of his poem Balada o křiwéj budźe (A Ballad of the Crooked Hut). The poem was translated into Russian by Marina Tsvetaeva, who based her work on a philological translation prepared by Łysohorsky himself. Tsvetaeva's version stands out for its high artistic quality and avoids excessive amplifications or formal distortions-techniques often employed by masterful translators to leave their mark on the original text. A Ballad of the Crooked Hut has drawn particular attention from researchers because it eerily foreshadows Tsvetaeva's tragic death: like the poem's heroine, she died by suicide, hanging herself from a noose fixed to a nail.

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