Editorial presence of the New Novel in Poland

The aim of this paper is to study the factors of the intraduction (Ganne, Minon 1992) of works written by the nouveau roman authors to the Polish literary space. The translation is understood here as the publication, i.e. the result of the publishing process which determines the diffusion of the text in the target market (Wilfert-Portal, Guérin 2012). After a bibliometric (quantitative) survey of the Polish translations of nouveau roman novels, we submitted its results to qualitative interpretations (also taking into account the editorial peritexts) which showed that there is a relatively regular, though not systematic, transfer of nouveau roman works to Poland. Two periods may be observed. The first begins in 1958, the year of the first translation, and ends in 1989, the year of the political transformations in Poland. During this period, translations were published by prestigious state houses, whose production depended on political and ideological factors. The second period, beginning in 1990, was marked by the end of the highly politicised organization of culture in Poland and by the transition to free-market economy methods. Novels by nouveau roman writers are now dispersed between various publishers and translators, and their intraduction, which follows mechanisms dictated by the progressive integration of the country into global networks, seems to be motivated by the publishers' search for symbolic and economic capital.

Keywords: nouveau roman; Polish translation; publishing market