- Title
- Ernest Hemingway in Interview and Translation
- Author/Creator
- Miroslawa BuchholtzDorota Guttfeld
- Annotation
- Brings together interview and translation studies to explore how interviewers and translators serve as mediators between Hemingway and his audience, creating versions of the author and his writing through their hands-on approach. Section One draws on interview theory to examine some of Hemingway's last conversations with George Plimpton and others within their Cold War context. Focuses not only on Hemingway's response but also on the interviewer's agenda and dynamics of their exchange. Concludes that these "'last' conversations repeatedly expose Hemingway's resistance to interviewing and publishing of interviews," with the interview-savvy author adopting different personas depending on the interviewer. Section Two details the life and career of Bronislaw Zieliński, the Polish translator of Hemingway's works beginning with his 1956 translation of The Old Man and the Sea. Chronicles their brief 1958 meeting in Ketchum, Idaho, which grew into an epistolary friendship against the backdrop of Cold-War paranoia. Pieces together their relationship through correspondence and Zieliński's notes and private diary. Closes with commentary on Zieliński's 1959 article on why Hemingway is a "Polish writer." Section Three discusses an experiment using Polish MA-level student translations of Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" to illustrate the dangers faced by translators when confronted with ambiguity or simplicity. Research results show the students' unconscious tendency to embellish meaning according to stereotypical notions of literariness, thus narrowing the story's range of possible interpretations. Finds this same disturbing tendency present in the story's canonical version by professional translator Bronislaw Zieliński.
- Publisher
- Springer Nature; Cham, Switzerland
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015212799703691
Book
Ernest Hemingway in Interview and Translation
Springer Nature
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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