Co znaczą te Itaki? Na marginesie polskich przekładów Itaki Konstandinosa Kawafisa
What Do These Ithacas Mean? In the Margins of Cavafy’s Ithaca in Polish

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses all Polish translations of the well-known poem by Constantine P. Cavafy (1863– 1933), Ithaca (Ιθάκη). Comparing the beginnings of the first stanza and the last stanza, which are fundamental to the comprehension of the poem, I demonstrate main differences between the original and its Polish versions. In my analysis I concentrate on the idiosyncrasies of Cavafy’s language, so challenging to translators of this poetry. My parallel reading of the translations by Zygmunt Kubiak, Nikos Chadzinikolau, Czesław Miłosz and Antoni Libera reveals striking discrepancies between the original text and the proposed versions, most noticeably in Libera’s.

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