delving in normalcy?
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Who reads metropolitan literature these days? No wonder that my interest in majoritarian French literary expression has been lesser than my studies concerning Maghreb or Sub-Saharan African literatures. Parisian books have had an air of normalcy, lacking tragedies, intense moral conflicts; they seem dull, at least as referred to the current standards of pathos. On the other hand, my attempts at delving into French modernity have often tested of nostalgia, bringing me back to my modest intellectual beginnings, when I was a student of Romance philology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, eastern Poland; my Master dissertation spoke of Conrad Detrez, sort of dissident Belgian writer. Still, the francophone European section is the least developed of all the research fields I have ever cultivated. For many years, I published on French literature episodically. I suppose this situation will change one day. I'm not immune to the appeal of older French literature; I do appreciate such writers as Flaubert and Zola. But to publish learned papers on them appeared too conformist throughout my Polish years. Just because other people used to do this.
It is only recently that I started to feel again the nostalgia of my remote French studies; perhaps I could return to those conformist topics, see them from a new angle, give them the freshness of my adventures in the world. This is why, hesitantly, I include this page in my Research&Projects section, with the feeling of reopening a debate, and a hope of engaging new interlocutors and academic contexts around the world. |
my essays in french & european francophone literature |
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“Une traduction qui fait un manifeste. Art poétique de Verlaine et Sztuka poetycka de Miriam” [“A translation that makes a manifesto. Art poétique by Verlaine et Sztuka poetycka by Miriam”], Romanica Silesiana, no 12/2017, p. 270-277. ISSN 1898-2433 (print); 2353-9887 (electronic).
The Polish translation of Verlaine's Art poétique marks an important step in the process of acquisition of the symbolism as a new paradigm of poetic creation. The analysis presented in this paper puts in the limelight the problem of positioning the translated text in the receptive literary system. The analytic proposal implies the employment of the term “embeddedness” originally introduced by the historian Karl Polanyi to render the implication of the non-economic factors in the process of production. Analogically, the production of the literary texts is conditioned by factors situated at the frontier of literature. Those wishing to adopt a foreign aesthetics must vanquish the resistance of the local, traditionalist context. As the result, the translation is “embedded” as a manifesto, even if Verlaine's Art poétique is a parody of the genre and an expression of the poet's creative doubts rather than a truly prescriptive text. The auto-parodic dimension of the original poem disappears in the Polish translation by Miriam that becomes a rigorous ars poetica. “Désert: une métaphore absolue de J.M.G. Le Clézio. Entre l'exotisme et l'écriture de la solidarité” [“Desert: an absolute metaphor of J.M.G. Le Clézio. Between exoticism and solidarity writing”], Le Maroc dans l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio, Claude Cavallero et Ijjou Cheikh Moussa (eds.), Rabat, Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Rabat, 2014, p. 115-125; [Série: Colloques et Séminaires, n°177].
"L'amour non-humain de « l'andréide » au metadesign. En lisant L'Ève future de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam dans une perspective actuelle" ["Non-human love from andréide to metadesign. Reading Tomorrow's Eve by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in a contemporary perspective"], Savoirs et fiction dans les littératures romanes, Barbara Marczuk, Joanna Gorecka-Kalita, Agnieszka Kocik (éd.), Kraków, Collegium Columbinum, 2014, p. 235-245. ISSN 1895-6076, ISBN 978-83-7624-128-9
“Au-delà de la pitié. Guilleragues et Flaubert lus à la lumière de l'essai Naufrage avec spectateur d'Hans Blumenberg” [“Beyond the pity. Shipwreck with Spectator by Hans Blumenberg as a key to read Gilleragues and Flaubert”], Auteur, personnage, lecteur dans les lettres d'expression française, Marzena Chrobak, Jakub Kornhauser, Waclaw Rapak (éd.), Kraków, Księgarnia Akademicka, 2014, p. 249-256. ISBN 978-83-7638-420-7
"'In the pleats of great languages': minor Romance literatures of Europe", Colloquia Humanistica, nr 2/2013, p. 293-296; ISSN 2081-6774. (Book review).
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