How does the French Chopin’s Piano sound. On the troubles with literary translation

  • Jacek Giszczak
Keywords: Chopin’s Piano; Le piano de Chopin; Joseph Perard; Feliks Konopka; Krzysztof Jeżewski; translation; poetry; Polish language; French language

Abstract

It is a comparative analysis of three French translations of Chopin’s Piano: by Joseph Perard (1937), Feliks Konopka (1957) and Krzysztof Jeżewski (1983). The linguistic choices made by the translators make it possible to point to those parts of the text of the poem by Norwid that can hardly be translated – sometimes due to the very essence of the original language and of the language of the translation. The author also offers his own version of the translation of Norwid’s work.

Published
2020-05-05
Issue
Vol 31 (2013)
Section
Articles

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