Boris Poplavsky’s Notes on Poetry: the author’s credo and translator’s imagination Cover Image

Borysa Popławskiego Uwagi o poezji: autorskie credo a wyobraźnia tłumacza
Boris Poplavsky’s Notes on Poetry: the author’s credo and translator’s imagination

Author(s): Grzegorz Ojcewicz
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Russian emigration; Paris note; evolution of genres; surrealism

Summary/Abstract: This article scrutinizes the structure and content of Boris Poplavsky’s Notes on Poetry. The text reveals the thoughts of this Russian poet who writes about the Russian poetic tradition (Pushkin, Blok) and mentions selected aspects of emigrant reality. B. Poplavsky stresses the importance of an innovative element in the creative process. He indicates the basic mechanisms governing the inner literary process which determine the evolution of fiction.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: XXIII
  • Page Range: 97-105
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish