Dziwny nieznany świat by Janusz A. Zajdel

In his spare time, he popularized science by writing science fiction. He published a number of academic works, handbooks of safety regulations, as well as educational and popular science texts. After graduating, he worked many years as a radiological engineer and an expert on nuclear physics at the Central Laboratory of Radiological Protection in Poland. He studied physics at the University of Warsaw. Janusz Zajdel was born 15 August 1938 in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish science fiction fandom award was named after him: the Janusz A. His heroes desperately try to find meaning in the world around them. His main recurring theme involved the gloomy prospects for a space environment into which mankind carried totalitarian ideas and habits: Red Space Republics, or Space Labor Camps, or both.

His major genres were social science fiction and dystopia. Although until 1989 the reasons for the acceptance and promotion or the rejection and ignorance of the works studied in the thesis were mainly connected with Cold War politics, while after that caesura it was the publishing policies which was the decisive factor, by no means were they exclusive.Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (15 August 1938 – 19 July 1985) was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem.

The structure of the dissertation reflects its focus in the following way: the literary, as well as extra-literary factors conditioning the import/export of Polish narratives into English are discussed in Chapter One, Chapter Two constitutes the qualitative and quantitative analysis of Polish novels and short-story collections of the 1945-1989 period translated into English and presented decade by decade until 2015, Chapter Three, in contrast, focuses on those notable Polish writers whose narratives have not found their way into English-language translated literature. Questions about how a text is selected for translation, what role translation agents (commissioners, publishers, translators, editors) play in it, or how a text will be received in the target system are at the heart of the polysystemic approach to studying translation. Drawing on the ideas of the Russian formalists, Even-Zohar suggested that in studying the status and image of translated literature in a given target culture, extra-literary factors should be taken into account as well. The theoretical framework adopted in the thesis remains in accordance with the polysystemic approach theorised by Itamar Even-Zohar. The striking gap discernible between the high reputation of many Polish narratives dating to the 1945-1989 period and their absence in English translation became an inspiration for the study of the selection criteria employed by Anglo-American as well as Polish translation commissioners in the time between 19.

Dziwny nieznany świat by Janusz A. Zajdel