A Wasted Opportunity? On the Milan Kundera's Translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky into Czech

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Czech translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poems by Milan Kundera which were published before Kundera's emigration to France in various Czech regional journals and newspapers. Kundera's translations are analysed and confronted with Czech renderings by Jiří Taufer, who later became the "court translator" of Mayakovsky in the Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

• transalations
• poetry
• Mayakovsky
• Milan Kundera
• Jiri Taufer
• czech language
• russian language