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Peano her uy Cc ace eee ieee tee - en eer an Pederson ‘ fherreeeenene # Priel sre tg: emogsterier. ee | wie, czym jest sztuka przektadu, Czytajgete nowa pope Is sae Fae) ini Sapareamme een | Prion Nr i See eon ey Poem aata ctcad Co er ua Norman Davies Foreword. ‘One of England's Fzabehan writer famously deserted transition asthe reverse side of a Tarkish eapet. Its {prety metaphor, ut my view, mistaken oe. For no tranltion san intra pf the ogi text. isa new nd separate creative work, models onthe orig but tise omit and sub ferent Ifyou tie, second Turkish crpeta copy, whose patterns ny eserbl those ofthe original but whose teste, lishing and shades of aloo ea never be identical Pasonaly I proers manic. ok ht wansaton Ji fkle a melody played on a diferent fsrament or in Silo ky awh Air Cs wih eas wren for ili, wll remain recognisable, even I played on {tombone and in the key of B Th. Some arrangements ould be smost ss good a Bach's, But they ean never Produce excl the same sound ‘When I wrote my fst Books on Posh History — White gl Rod Starand Gods layground — thee was no chance ‘ofthe PRUs censorship allowing them tobe psd in Pd, So Unever spre thought about the posi, forthe problems, of tasaton In Gs Pleygroued, ar ‘ample I wrote mad sentence which ran “The ecifeat- ing pofsion of possible pot permtaons among the pallating peoples and pris ofthe Polish provinces in this period play prevented the propagation of perm ren pacsberncen pea pre ee ho ate 6 Norman Davies Praedmowa oxmem anickiems paz pki bith _aadegezanyalynne slow pace fest jak ova sto ‘tareliogo dyna” Todo tana maar ale eam ‘dani natn, Albowien tae prcklad net i rng exc orga, To nowe inane wrens {io,wprawdte wrorcorane na orginal, se ednocze fe odie | plnesubichych dn. Turtckl Gyan, ale en ss 9 opi, rj ae mabe peal pay ominac wr orginal, ae kta gd mie bee mis ‘lenezne fata splot hae. ‘Osaicie woleporianie2dzadziny muzyki. Sag fe prvkln ot jak sea gana a inn nstrumencle tuskraypec, sg rzpoznag el sys gran na Przonie tons B-due. Nickie aranzace mow sic a6 real ak dobre, ak ogra whlad Bache, Zadna Soak ie zbran dkladnie ak samo ‘Kid salem swoje ere zhi o histor Pbk (One tlao,ezrvong gota | Bote iyo — nie blo fadnch sans nso, aby poerlowska cenzra ceva na ich polskie wydaie. Wee lego ai pre moment ie ‘anaes na now ~ anna problema ~pracladu. W Baty ipa, na peykid, ues ‘peviowane nile bran The pleating po Foro possible political permations on the pallu ing peoples and partis ofthe Polish provinees i this pe rave string of English words al beginning wth wih no ‘otter purpose thant save myself and my readers from he {etiam a long sop section on nineteenth entry po Ties, 1 never struck me that someone would have orn Ine i. Dr. Tabakowska came up with Palta pote ych permata poliyerayeh pairéd pyczkujgrch nro {Epa powstjgyeh pedntaasw peowincih pic rz powstzynyalapotenalnjch partner raed Podejmowaniem propa permanentnych pyc ‘Similarly when was wing Europ, was 20 aborbed ith he tas and that I never dreamt of ying the teat in order tighten the ransatorslad, kn any exe, Twa vy dlerrined tha the ices and divest of ropeanchisation be eleed in my narrative. So I ped ‘up the foreign ers, the antiquarian words, and he qt Sons in every conccable language, ram Grek an Latin tolrsh, Rosin, nish, eve Tish was alo concer ‘olead my readers yond the conventional elms of ptt «al ssi, esonomic or diplomat history and to give them Europe contsins an unstal quantity of unas cerminlo fy mel had great dieu groping with the ocabu lary of mediaeval able manners, forintance, othe rai of Pompean brothels othe tehnicaiies ofthe modes of ‘Gregor chant. How mich moremusthe anlar grapple wish ators own uncetin grappling! an nw ase however ht fr theteasltor’s point of view, Norman Davies ia best among authors. He kes to think that isnt sol, andthat hi sentence stoetate 1s Kop as simple ak posse. He hopes that each of it paragraphs explores one singe ies; and tht te ain of thought doesnot jump onand of the wack oo often. These Isic vies gine the tantra reasonable star. On the fate hand, ne vest play wh Words He Hs ay Te 5 butween poten partes. Diigo aiterayineg cig ngielskch slow zacynigeych io ery ym po to, by uchronic bi swoich esl pred uihijgea nud rela dotyergcs}deewitnaionsecane} pel Ngdy mnie passlo da slow. 8 Bye moze Kos fo baie masa przettimacayé, W wshonania Elbit Te Takes to nie wy ak Pale potencplneh permutaipoliyenych pst peskaaeyeh mardi Ti powstaeyeh podowezas w povingach polskich pac vwanie powstramywalapetencjlnych partners pred pxdgmowaniem propryehpemanentych eye) ‘Kiedy pslem Eure, sound byl tk ocho) ssn zadaiem, 22 igdynawel ne pore o ‘hy wprawadaé do tlt jokes zany da law “zi mason, Pred wazythin chao mio to aby moja narracja odawieridlla bogielwe i rdznorednnse caropejshic)eywizach. Gremadrm wig abuojeycene termi, jeshone sara, ety we wsaytich mona ies, od grok pra cing po jy rand, rosy, Fisk ba, ae pols, Chodsl mitake sy wy rows moh ytcnkow por race itr ple i spol zn) gospodarze czy slosankw dyer ‘ych das im kjk poi igo bari ty vetkichpraesoii W rezlacie Europ ech ipa: Signa mnogo ecdlennych worse, Sam miler ne 9

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