Czułość tłumacza / czułość poety. „Wyczucie translatorskie” w refleksjach polskich poetów emigracyjnej grupy „Kontynenty”

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the idea of “czułość” in poetry translations. Since the polysemic Polish word “czułość” denotes several different concepts ‒ “tenderness” in particular, but also “sensitivity”, “sense”, “intuition”, “fondness” or “responsivity” – it is frequently used in the deliberations of Polish translators discussing a variety of issues related to interlinguistic transfer of literary works. The article focuses on remarks provided by the émigré writers associated with the London “Kontynenty” group (Andrzej Busza, Bogdan Czaykowski, Adam Czerniawski, Jan Darowski, Janusz Artur Ihnatowicz, Zygmunt Ławrynowicz, Florian Śmieja, Bolesław Taborski, Gustaw Radwański and, to a lesser extent, Jerzy Pietrkiewicz). They refer to the idea mainly to analyse four aspects of poetry translation: “empathy” between translator and author of the original, “aptitude” for writing poetry, extraordinary linguistic “competence” in both source and target languages, and, last but not least, the in-depth knowledge of literary history that increases the “sensitized” translator’s awareness of intertextual and stylistic links between the translated text and literary canon.