Translating emotions: Emotive aspect in Ernest Hemingway’s 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and its Polish translation by Bronisław Zieliński

Abstract

This article constitutes a stylistic analysis of expressing emotions in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and its Polish translation by Bronisław Zieliński. It takes into account 8 excerpts which, on the one hand – are the most distinctive to Ernest Hemingway’s literary style, and in which, at the same time, the emotive aspect is predominant, and on the other – such, which exhibit a significant analytical potential from the point of view of translation studies. Consequently, the analysis aims to investigate the linguistic means (lexical, grammatical, syntactical, semantic and phonetic) applied by both the writer and the translator. The nature of this article is qualitative; an attempt is made to present the challenges which the translator needed to face and to assess the decisions of the translator in terms of transferring emotions and style.