Rosja, kobieta, ekspresja…

Abstract

Russia, Women and Expression… On the Strategies of Removing the Stranger from Translation of Leonid Andreev’s Short Story: Žiznʹ Vasiliâ Fivejskogo The article presents a comparative analysis of two Polish translations of Leonid Andreev’s short story Жизнь Василия Фивейского, made by: Stanislawa Kruszewska (Żywot Bazylego Fiwejskiego) and Henryk and Jan Zbierzchowski (Życie o. Wasyla / Ojciec Wasyl z Teb). The aim of the comparison is to describe numerous types of manipulation strategies used by Zbierzchowski brothers in order to adjust the story to the norms of target culture. The changes in their translation are related to cultural, aesthetic and gender “strangeness”, which has been removed from the text. In the Author’s opinion, most of the assimilating strategies used by translators should be analyzed in the context of Henryk Zbierzchowski’s literary works.

Keywords

• manipulation
• assimilation
• exoticism
• expressionism
• strangeness