Najnowsze przekłady "Jądra ciemności" na XXI w. : analiza kontrastywna

Abstract

There are few books that have four or five retranslations within two decades - Heart of Darkness belongs to such works. The paper aims at a contrastive analysis of the latest four Polish retranslations of Heart of Darkness in a synchronic perspective, to show how different translators render the same text for various audiences. In line with Descriptive Translation Studies, the purpose of the analysis is not to evaluate the retranslations but to highlight the forms of manipulation applied to the original. For the analysis the following retranslations were chosen: Jędrzej Polak’s (1994/2009), Barbara Koc’s (2000), Patrycja Jabłońska’s (2008) and Magda Heydel’s (2011).