Ideology in Polish Translations of Anglo-American Literature

Ideology has always influenced translation, yet this fact became a topic of scholarly research only in the 1990s. The working ideology literary translations most often manifests itself as conflict value systems. From vast reservoir foreign sources, native axiology absorbs values that it needs to sustain its culture. It is not coincidence Anglo-American literature, propagating ideas democracy and individual freedom, popular Poland first half nineteenth-century when did exist state. Only century later, American literature was all literatures pre-1939 Poland. World War II changed situation, Soviet-controlled apparatchiks favored were “politically correct.” Yet, because their connections with earlier revolutionary movements, avant-garde writers published during communist regime, for example Virginia Woolf, whose novels standardized appeal tastes readers. After regained independence 1989, national book market privatized commercialized, needed advertising get noticed. Cormack McCarthy’s translated into Polish on wave popularity Coen brothers movie based No Country Old Men. two novel try sound like typical hard-boiled realistic fiction. This where consumerism meets communism: means – control cultural monolith, differences are perceived possible threats social order.