Bernard Adams : Egy brit műfordító a magyar hitvalló irodalom világában

Petrőczi, Éva (2023) Bernard Adams : Egy brit műfordító a magyar hitvalló irodalom világában. In: Hagyomány, Identitás, Történelem 2022. Reformáció Öröksége (10). Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Hittudományi Kar Egyháztörténeti Kutatóintézet, Budapest, pp. 331-339.

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Abstract

Bernard Adams (born in 1937) has lived for a long time now in Zánka and has a double – English-Hungarian – citizenship. At the age of 55, he gave up his leading teacher position in one of the historical grammar schools in London, and from that time on, he became an ardent “ferryboat-man” between the Hungarian and the English culture. Adams is a widely recognised and awarded translator of our greatest classical and modern writers, but his greatest and noblest effort is the excellent and philologically impeccable translation of the most important authors of the Hungarian Calvinist literature. He started his translating activity with his personal favourite, Márton Szepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietas, which was followed by masterpieces like the Autobiography of Miklós and Kata Bethlen, the Letters of Kelemen Mikes. The culmination of his cultural mission is the translation of some of our most important Reformed Confessions. In this presentation one of his lyrical bravados, the English version of Zoltán Jékely’s In the church of Marosszentimre will also be analysed. The somehow unusual, but necessary part of this paper is a short “built in” interview with a collegial friend of the author, in order to bring him closer to the theologians of the Hungarian Reformed Church.

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