Rocznik Komparatystyczny

The article attempts to catalogue the various relationships of authorial and translational writing and the ways in which one affects the other or vice versa (typically, a direction of influence is clearly identifiable). The author indicates and discusses the following trajectories: from translating to stylising original writing as a translation; from translating to pseudotranslations; from translating to stylising a translation as an original; from translating to an authorial control over the translations of one’s writing; from translating to author-like control over translations; from original writing to co-authoring translations; from original writing to mythologised translation; from authorial fame to marginalisation of translation activity; from translating to suppression of original writing; affinities of technique: from stylisation in one’s own writing to stylising in translation; from authoring a text to translating it (self-translation); translatology of the imaginary: a writer as a wished-for translator. The argument pivots on references to figures of writers-translators who metonymically represent particular categories or phenomena. The examples of combining original writing with translational activity used for illustration have in part already been described in the literature of the subject, however, in a different perspective. Other cases are believed not to have been discussed so far.