L’histoire de la Pologne revisitée ou le jeu de l’implicite et de l’explicite dans la traduction française de Jak zawsze de Zygmunt Miłoszewski

The present article analyzes the French translation of Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s
novel Jak zawsze (As usual) into French (translation: Kamil Barbarski, title: Te souviendras-tu
de demain?) and focuses particularly on the play between implicit and explicit elements related
to the history and culture of Poland. The protagonists of the novel travel back in time
fifty years to Poland, where it occurs that history unfolded completely differently than in
reality. They have the opportunity to relive their lives in a different world, but it occurs
that although their private lives will turn out differently, the history of Poland will end as
usual. Miłoszewski uses stereotypes and allusions which, without explication in translation,
will be incomprehensible or will lose their raison d’être. The author analyzes the translator’s
strategies and the ability to understand the text by the recipient of the translation.