Engagement with literature, like all forms of contact, always lies somewhere between the pleasurable and the unpleasant. Reading and translating are activities which engage the body doing the experiencing – whether somatic, sensual or sexual.
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The Brothers Karamazov, a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, has been present in the world of Polish letters since 1913, which is when the first translation by Barbara Beaupré was published (although previous to that, the chapter about the Grand Inquisitor was translated and published as a stand-alone text1).
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Assumptions and aims
The present contribution is an attempt to explore the interrelation between the notions of quality and seriality in literary translation. Its aim is not, however, judging the “excellence” of the target texts in a normative way, but rather observing certain “quality patterns” in translation poetics.
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