Krzysztof Bartnicki


Krzysztof Bartnicki is a Polish translator, writer, musician/composer, lexicographer and Joyce scholar. His translations into English include poetry of Stanisław Dróżdż and Bolesław Leśmian. He is the author of several Polish-English dictionaries.

Translator

Bartnicki's Finneganów tren is world's 7th complete translation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The translation, completed 1999–2012, won various awards, including the Literatura na Świecie Award.
Bartnicki also translated Finnegans Wake into a rotary business card holder and into a musical cryptogram.
His intersemiotic translations of Joyce have been discussed in Ireland, Italy, Poland, UK, USA etc.

Composer

In the musical output derived from the text of Finnegans Wake, Bartnicki's first publicly performed composition was A Redivivus of Paganinism: Variations on a Text by Joyce upon Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini, the most frequently recurring, however, were his imitations of John Williams's themes for Star Wars.

Original work