Archiwum, afekt i korespondencja (Djuny Barnes) w perspektywie zdarzenia przekładowego

This article examines unpublished correspondence between the American avantg-arde writer Djuna Barnes and her German translators (Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Christine Köschel, and Inge von Weidenbaum). Focusing on the complex translational history of Barnes’s final – and, in her own view, most important – work, The Antiphon, the study draws on Outi Paloposki’s concept of the translation event to analyze how dialogic author–translator relations shaped the course of the translation process. The methodological framework is informed by theories of correspondence (Hersant; Całek), which foreground relationality and affect as constitutive features of epistolary exchange. Manifested in trust, frustration, negotiation, and control, affect emerges as a crucial, though often overlooked, component of the translation event. Approached from this perspective, the archival material makes visible tensions between authorial authority and translators’ autonomy, as well as asymmetries of the prestige accorded to a male translator and the marginalization of women translators.