Thirty Years of Czech Prose Translations into Russian: 1992–2022

AGAPOVA, Anna. Thirty Years of Czech Prose Translations into Russian: 1992–2022. In Researching Translation History in Central and Eastern Europe (HTN WG Eastern and Central Europe Seminar, Kraków). 2024.

Basic information

• Original name: Thirty Years of Czech Prose Translations into Russian: 1992–2022
• Authors: AGAPOVA, Anna.
• Edition: Researching Translation History in Central and Eastern Europe (HTN WG Eastern and Central Europe Seminar, Kraków), 2024.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Poland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: translation history; literary translation; translation sociology; agents of translation; Czech literature
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

If we explore the history of the translation of Czech prose into Russian from the 2024 perspective, it becomes obvious that the period of literary translations from Czech into Russian, which started in 1992, has already come to an end. In my presentation, I revise my earlier observations and describe this thirty-year period as a completed stage in the history of Russian-Czech literary exchange from the socio-cultural perspective. Employing quantitative methods, as well as genre repertoire examination, and considering the involvement of various agents of translation, I propose a periodization of contemporary translations of Czech prose into Russian. This periodization also reflects the shifts in the Russian book market over the thirty-year span under consideration.

Links

• MUNI/A/1479/2023, interní kód MU: Name: Identita, ekvivalence a jinakost v slovanských jazycích, literaturách a kulturách

Investor: Masaryk University, Identity, equivalence and otherness in Slavic languages, literatures and cultures