O specyfice archiwów tłumaczy na przykładzie zbiorów Archiwum im. Karla Dedeciusa przy Collegium Polonicum w Słubicach

This article examines the specific nature of literary translators’ archives, using the Karl Dedecius Archive at the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice as a case study. Situated within the context of the “archival turn,” which has intensified theoretical reflection on archives, it approaches translators’ archives as a relatively new field of inquiry, asking how they differ from and relate to other types of archives. Adopting the perspective of archival studies, the article explores how translators’ private papers enter institutional archives and how this process shapes perceptions of translators, literature, and scholarship. It analyses translators’ archives from anthropocentric, textocentric, and network-oriented perspectives, arguing that they are not “organic” accumulations but consciously shaped constructs that reflect strategies of self-representation and can be understood as a form of creative work contributing to translators’ posthumous presence. The study demonstrates that the growing professional self-awareness of translators is reflected in the structure of their archives, which tend to foreground mediation, promotion, and reception rather than the translation process itself. Finally, the article presents translators’ archives as dynamic, networked systems that interact with other collections, thereby generating new meanings, contexts, and research perspectives.