OVERCOMING “UNTRANSLATABILITY” OF LITERARY TEXTS

Abstract

. The article discusses the problem of translation quality basing on the Russian version snippets from Gillian Flinn’s best-selling novel Gone Girl. The author of the article being in line with “translatability – untranslatability” conceptual dichotomy and enhancing it, gives accent to the key role of immediate comprehension and interpretation stages in translating literary texts. Difficulties and errors occurring at the above stages are analyzed. The interpreter’s concern is defined in the tradition of national linguistic school of translation and in compliance with the semantic translation strategy as providing the most adequate transformation of the original. It is emphasized that preservation of the writer’s discourse is of crucial importance in literary translation. The propriety of the interpreter’s transformations is considered using inferencing from examples. It is analyzed from the viewpoint of the necessity to preserve the author’s communicative intention and style, dominating ideas of individual sentences, sense dynamics within super-phrasal entities.