Cultural aspects of Literary Translation (on the materials of translations of the novel Aq Boz Yui by S.Yelubay)

Abstract

In modern terms of translation studies cultural aspects of translation have been accepted as theory of cultural translation itself. The cultural component of any piece of literary work plays a fundamental role in the translation process, since focusing on cultural specifics makes it possible to better consider changes in the meaning of a text in the case when the original culture is different from the target one. This study is aimed at analyzing the cultural issue of translations of the novel of historical and philosophical genre, which is a representative of national Kazakh literature. In the manuscript the authors examine the indirect translation of the novel Aq Boz Yui by the prominent Kazakh writer S.Yelubay into English, done by a mediating Russian language. The linguistic and cultural aspects of indirect translation have been considered from the point of view of the translation adequacy and preservation of national specifics of the historical fiction.