Obce światy w przekładzie – praktyki tłumaczeniowe Syrokomli. Konturowanie panoramy

Abstract

This article attempts to characterize a wide array of Syrokomla’s translation competencies, and to discuss the specificity of selected translations from English, German, French and Russian in order to define his profile as a translator. Syrokomla’s translation practices and works show his non-standard translation choices and determine both the recurrent dominants of versification and rhytmization, and the poetics/genre-dependent differences in lexical and stylistic choices. Moreover, some translation transfers were scrutinized to show only possible potential of indirect translation (e.g. translations from Danish through German – as in Andersen’s works, or the French and English translations) whose equivalents could be known to Syrokomla only via Russian translations, which was a very frequent practice in the 19th century.