Of course the stories I translated are available in English, since that's the language they were written in.:P Naturally you wouldn't be able to judge the quality of my translations that way, but reading the originals would give you an idea what kind of stories I chose (OK, I'll tell you - they were all gay/lesbian-themed... LOL). I don't remember all the authors and titles right now (I did about ten of them, some very short, some never published) - but some of the best and most memorable ones are Just a Phase by Lucy Jane Bledsoe, A Letter to Harvey Milk by Leslea Newman and Burning Times by Sara Maitland.
As for the possibilities of being an English-Polish interpreter here in the US, of course they exist - but that's not what I want to do. The only thing I ever wanted was to translate literature, and I just don't see a point in doing that when everyone around me can easily access (and understand) the said literature in its original version. In Poland, I felt like I was on a mission, bringing the beauty of words to the deprived gay & lesbian community that didn't have a literature of its own. Here, if there are Polish lesbians who might want to read these stories, they most probably speak English and have already read them in the original. See my point? Besides, who would pay me for this kind of work here? Surely not Americans - and if the only feminist organization in Poland didn't think that publishing an anthology of lesbian-themed fiction was worth a grant, why would the Polish feminists here be of a different opinion (if there are any)?... Anyway, I have come to a conclusion that since I have to get a stupid office job anyway to pay my bills, I might just as well enjoy my free time reading, instead of sweating over translations that nobody's going to be interested in. Logical, no?
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Date: 2006-06-06 02:13 am (UTC)As for the possibilities of being an English-Polish interpreter here in the US, of course they exist - but that's not what I want to do. The only thing I ever wanted was to translate literature, and I just don't see a point in doing that when everyone around me can easily access (and understand) the said literature in its original version. In Poland, I felt like I was on a mission, bringing the beauty of words to the deprived gay & lesbian community that didn't have a literature of its own. Here, if there are Polish lesbians who might want to read these stories, they most probably speak English and have already read them in the original. See my point? Besides, who would pay me for this kind of work here? Surely not Americans - and if the only feminist organization in Poland didn't think that publishing an anthology of lesbian-themed fiction was worth a grant, why would the Polish feminists here be of a different opinion (if there are any)?... Anyway, I have come to a conclusion that since I have to get a stupid office job anyway to pay my bills, I might just as well enjoy my free time reading, instead of sweating over translations that nobody's going to be interested in. Logical, no?