Adaptacja czy egzotyzacja – strategie tłumaczeniowe w przekładzie powieści braci Strugackich Poniedziałek zaczyna się w sobotę

Science-fiction is a literary genre which should be fairly easy to translate. The process gets more difficult when one needs to translate elements of folklore and culture. In my essay I demonstrate how the perception of the world changes with the use of certain elements of folklore. The selected examples of Russian science-fiction literature and their translations into Polish reflect the modified worldview. The essay is based on the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Monday begins on Saturday and two translations into Polish by Ewa Skorska and Irena Piotrowska. Two translation strategies – domestication and foreignization – are discussed and I consider which one the translator should use.