Krzysztof Bartnicki (born 1971) is a Polish translator, writer, musician/composer, lexicographer and Joyce scholar. His translations into English include poetry of Stanisław Dróżdż and Bolesław Leśmian. 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's themes for Star Wars.
Bibliography
Original work
- (2010) Prospekt emisyjny (Prospectus); listed for Paszport Polityki Award
- (2012) Fu wojny (Fu of War); applying the ancient art of war to literary translation
- (2015) Macleid (in English)
- (2021) Myśliwice, Myśliwice; awarded Gdynia Literary Prize for Best Polish Prose
Translations
- (2012) Finneganów tren., ha!art, Kraków
- (2012) Da Capo al Finne, Sowa, Warszawa
- (2015) Finnegans Meet, Opole/Tychy
- (2016) Inwards Beyond the Words Between, Wrocław
- (2023) Garutko sobotniej ropy
- (2024) Port hwjezdny Topjo
References
- Finnegans Wake Rolodexed, Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 8 June 2015.
- Secret Code in Joyce's Finnegans Wake Cracked, Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 28 January 2014.
- La guida di un poeta ingegnere nel labirinto di Joyce Archived 2 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Edoardo Camurri, Il foglio, 2 February 2016.
- Finneganów tren: James Joyce Archived 27 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, publisher's repository of links, ha!art, 2012–2016.
- Translation and Authorship Revisited: Krzysztof Bartnicki, Finneganów tren, Da Capo al Finne, and Finnegans _ake, John Kearns, in Authorizing Translation, ed. Michelle Woods. Routledge, 2017. 96–113.
- Star Wars and Finnegans Wake, Sara Jewell, Waywords and Meansigns, 4 January 2016.
- Macleid, Act 5, Scene 5, Wakat, 4(31), 2015.