Abstract
TRANSLATION OF THE EXPERIMENT – TWO POEMS BY DANIIL KHARMS TRANSLATED BY WIKTOR WOROSZYLSKI The article concerns two poems by Daniil Kharms (Нéтеперь and Фадеев, Калдеев и Пепермалдеев…) translated by Wiktor Woroszylski (Nieteraz and Fadiejew, Kałdiejew i Piepiermałdiejew…). This translation was considered in the context of a poetic experiment used by the Russian author. On the one hand, free verse (Nieteraz) and on the other hand, accentual-syllabic verse (Fadiejew…) were compared to their translations. Irrespective of the form, both the striving to reproduce the absurdity characteristic of Kharms and smoothing out the non-normative punctuation of the original can be noticed in Woroszylski’s translations. In addition to the conclusions regarding the decision of a particular translator, attention was also drawn to the need of taking into account the characteristics of a given text (experiment and absurdity) and the relationship between the translation and the literature in a given period of time.
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