Nieżyte życie
A Life Unlived

Summary/Abstract: During the conference on 24.04 at the Polski Theater in Bydgoszcz, Karolina Bikont, translator of Elfriede Jelinek's Winter's Journey, spoke of her involvement in the process of the play's creation. Even if some fragments of the text did not become part of the final performance, they functioned on a meta-textual level (when words were lost in the translation, they still existed in the memories of the translator, dramaturg, and director), ensuring that the text was always alive. The translator encourages us not to interpret Jelinek with academic theories, as her texts ought, above all, to be "let inside of us and digested for as long as possible." This reading based on meditation allows us (both the readers and the creators of the play) to better understand the work of this Austrian author.

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