Krzysztof Bartnicki (born 1971) is a Polish translator, writer, musician/composer,
lexicographer and
Joyce scholar. His translations into English include poetry of
Stanisław Dróżdż
Stanisław Dróżdż (1939, Sławków, Poland — March 29, 2009, Wroclaw) was a Polish artist. He is a representative of concrete poetry, and a pioneer of this movement in Polish art. He graduated from the University of Wrocław with a diplo ...
and
Bolesław Leśmian
Bolesław Leśmian (born Bolesław Lesman; January 22, 1877The exact date of his birth is disputed: the act of birth mentions 1877, Leśmian himself used 1878, while the date mentioned on his tombstone is 1879. – November 5, 1937) was a Pol ...
. He is the author of several Polish-English dictionaries.
Translator
Bartnicki's ''Finneganów tren'' (2012) is world's 7th complete translation of
James Joyce's ''
Finnegans Wake''. The translation, completed 1999–2012, won various awards, including the
Literatura na Świecie Award (2012).
Bartnicki also translated ''Finnegans Wake'' into a
rotary business card holder (''Finnegans Meet'', with Marcin Szmandra, 2015) and into a
musical cryptogram (''Da Capo al Finne'', 2012).
His
intersemiotic translations of Joyce have been discussed in Ireland, Italy, Poland, UK, USA etc.
Composer
In the musical output derived from the text of ''Finnegans Wake'', Bartnicki's first publicly performed composition was ''A Redivivus of Paganinism: Variations on a Text by Joyce upon Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini'' (Częstochowa, The
Lutosławski Year celebrations, 2013), the most frequently recurring, however, were his imitations of
John Williams
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's themes for ''
Star Wars
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''.
Bibliography
Original work
* (2010) ''Prospekt emisyjny'' (''Prospectus''); listed for
Paszport Polityki Award
* (2012) ''Fu wojny'' (''Fu of War''); applying the
ancient art of war
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Gameplay
A battlefield s ...
to literary translation
* (2015) ''Macleid'' (in English)
''Macleid'', Act 5, Scene 5
''Wakat'', 4(31), 2015.
Translations
* (2012) ''Finneganów tren.'', ha!art, Kraków iterary translation of ''Finnegans Wake''* (2012) ''Da Capo al Finne'', Sowa, Warszawa usical translation of ''Finnegans Wake''* (2015) ''Finnegans Meet'', Opole/Tychy erbovisual translation of ''Finnegans Wake'', with Marcin Szmandra">Marcin_Szmandra.html" ;"title="erbovisual translation of ''Finnegans Wake'', with Marcin Szmandra">erbovisual translation of ''Finnegans Wake'', with Marcin Szmandra* (2016) ''Inwards Beyond the Words Between'', Wrocław [English translation of Stanisław Dróżdż
Stanisław Dróżdż (1939, Sławków, Poland — March 29, 2009, Wroclaw) was a Polish artist. He is a representative of concrete poetry, and a pioneer of this movement in Polish art. He graduated from the University of Wrocław with a diplo ...
poetry]
References
External links
Krzysztof Bartnicki – Biography
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1971 births
Living people
Polish translators