Matters of (Non) Mortality and Flesh – Selected Stanisław Lem’s Neologisms in The Futurological Congress and Their Translations by Michael Kandel
Abstract
This paper is part of a cycle of studies on selected thematic groups of neologisms in Lem’s The Futurological Congress. The lexemes’ analysis – at the word-formation level, in the context of communicative and artistic functions of the text, leads to conclusions concerning the translator’s preferred strategies. Kandel demonstrated an understanding of the word-formation nuances and semantics of Lem’s neologisms, yet refrained from using calques, naturalisations, or dictionary equivalents in most of the cases under study. He looked for equivalences at various levels of the text and referred to extra-textual elements. He created neologisms understandable to readers rooted in American culture and strove to reconstruct the intra- and intertextual functions, with the goal of making the text function in the target cultural system.
Keywords:
Stanisław Lem, translation, neologism, equivalences, translation strategiesReferences
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