THE PECULIARITIES OF COMIC PERCEPTION IN THE RUSSIAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SMALL PROSE BY F.A. ISKANDER)

Abstract

The article studies the specificity of the comic perception in the literary translation from Russian into English. Several short prose stories by F.A. Iskander are given as illustrative material: “Nachalo”, “Trinadcatyj podvig Gerakla”, “Petuh”, “Zapretnyj plod”, “Kolcherukij”, and their English translation by Robert Daglish: “Something about myself”, “The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules”, “The Cock”, “Forbidden fruit”, “The Old Crooked Arm”. The presented work summarizes the functions and ways of transmitting the comic, discusses the difficulties of understanding it in translation. A high-quality translation of a work of fiction containing elements of the comic suggests taking into account the differences between the systems of languages and the peculiarities of cultures. The selected illustrative material shows the possibilities of using translation interpretation to preserve the comic effect in Russian-English translation.