The remains of Kresy: On the Italian, French and English translation of Tadeusz Konwicki’s novel Bohiń Cover Image

Quel che resta dei Kresy: sulla traduzione italiana, francese e inglese di Bohiń di Tadeusz Konwicki
The remains of Kresy: On the Italian, French and English translation of Tadeusz Konwicki’s novel Bohiń

Author(s): Dario Prola
Subject(s): Cultural history, Polish Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Associazione Italiana Polonisti (AIP)
Keywords: Tadeusz Konwicki;Kresy;Cultural terms;Translation Techniques;Translation Strategies;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a comparison of three translations of Tadeusz Konwicki’s novel Bohiń. After an overall evaluation of the specific characteristics of the Polish language spoken in the Vilnius area, the author focuses on its lexical aspects and in particular on words reflecting the complex social, political, and cultural reality of the northern Kresy. The analysis of the strategies adopted to render the novel’s realities, conducted on the basis of a classification of realia proposed by Krzysztof Hejwowski, enables the author to indicate how some of these words play an important role in the creation of Tadeusz Konwicki’s fictional and mythical universe.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 28-45
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Italian