I. Prijatelj i A. Nowaczyński : informacyjno-kreatywna funkcja przekładu : (aforyzmy Wilde'a tłumaczone poprzez polski na słoweński)

Abstract

Ivan Prijatelj, a literary historian and essayist, was a contemporary and collaborator of the group of Slovene writers known as the “Slovene Modernists” (slovenska moderna). Having obtained a sound training in Slavic philology, he was well able to translate modern poetry and prose directly from Russian, Polish and Czech, whereas in 1907 he made an indirect translation of Oscar Wilde’s aphorisms on the basis of the Polish version by A. Nowaczyński. The paper seeks to relate the characteristics of Prijatelj’s translation and the motives for its production to what is stated by the translator in an earlier essay on the art of translation which appeared in the introductory part of his study on Pushkin in Slovene translations (1901).