Lata Annie Ernaux. Czy „się” dobrze się czyta? O przekładzie zaimka osobowego „on” nie tylko gramatycznie
The Years by Annie Ernaux in Polish translation. Is it easy to read a text in impersonal form? About translating the French pronoun “on” not only from a grammatical point of view

Author(s): Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: literary translation; personal pronoun “on”; Annie Ernaux; autobiography
Summary/Abstract: The article is focused on the problem of translating the French personal pronoun “on” on the example of the Polish version of Les annees by Annie Ernaux. In her most famous work, the Nobel Prize winner creates a coherent project that is both a personal memory and a biography of a generation. He deliberately refuses the first-person singular in favor of the plural, the pronouns “elle” (she) and “elles” (they in feminine), and “he”. The article aims to analyze the Polish translation by Krzysztof Jarosz and Magdalena Budzińska (Czarne 2022). The translators’ strategy as well as the problems that appeared in the Polish translation were presented, including the issue of the lack of an equivalent pronoun in Polish for the French “on” and the difficulties of translation and editorial choices related to the need to care for style while maintaining the author’s concept.

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