Krzysztof Bartnicki

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)[1] and into a musical cryptogram (Da Capo al Finne, 2012).[2]

His intersemiotic translations of Joyce have been discussed in Ireland, Italy,[3] Poland,[4] UK,[5] 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.[6]

Bibliography

Original work

Translations
  • (2012) Finneganów tren., ha!art, Kraków [literary translation of Finnegans Wake]
  • (2012) Da Capo al Finne, Sowa, Warszawa [musical translation of Finnegans Wake]
  • (2015) Finnegans Meet, Opole/Tychy [verbovisual translation of Finnegans Wake, with Marcin Szmandra]
  • (2016) Inwards Beyond the Words Between, Wrocław [English translation of Stanisław Dróżdż poetry]

References
  1. Finnegans Wake Rolodexed, Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 8 June 2015.
  2. Secret Code in Joyce's Finnegans Wake Cracked, Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 28 January 2014.
  3. La guida di un poeta ingegnere nel labirinto di Joyce, Edoardo Camurri, Il foglio, 2 February 2016.
  4. Finneganów tren: James Joyce, publisher's repository of links, ha!art, 2012–2016.
  5. 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.
  6. Star Wars and Finnegans Wake, Sara Jewell, Waywords and Meansigns, 4 January 2016.
  7. Macleid, Act 5, Scene 5, Wakat, 4(31), 2015.
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