FEATURES OF ARTISTIC CONVERSION: LU XUN’S SHORT STORY “THE SWORD” IN RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS

Abstract

Lu Xun (1881-1936) is a great writer, the founder of modern Chinese literature, whose work has had and continues to have a huge impact on the development of national culture. The story “The Sword” (1926) is based on the well-known legend about the gunsmith Gan Jiang, which the writer, having creatively reworked, enriched with four songs written by him in Old Chinese. This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of Russian translations of this story. The obtained results show by which figurative-linguistic methods authoritative sinologists, translators L.D. Pozdneeva and T.N. Sorokina, each in her own way, in most cases managed to find alternative forms for the most adequate transmission of even the most difficult places of the artistic content of one of Lu Xun’s masterpieces of small prose.