O pracach translatorskich Yukio Kudo, autora japońskiego przekładu „Pana Tadeusza”
A Translator’s Experience: Yukio Kudo, the Japanese Translator of "Pan Tadeusz"

Summary/Abstract: A profile of Yukio Kudo (1925–2008), outstanding Japanese translator of Polish literature (incl. works by Gombrowicz, Konwicki, Miłosz, Hłasko, Schulz, Mickiewicz, and others), author of several books on Poland, publicist, poet, essayist. Mr. Koichi Kuyama recalls his contacts with Professor Kudo and the work on the Japanese translation of Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz [‘Mister Thaddeus’]. Kudo’s technique and philosophy of translation is reconstructed, demonstrating the extent to which a translator’s work is one of a man with a specific personality, experience as well as predilections.

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