Transformations in the translation of fiction

Abstract

A full-fledged translation of prose texts of any type is always and invariably a system of transformations of the original. By transformations, we mean the transmission of thought contained in a certain speech unit of the original (a phrase is now mistaken for such a unit in prose), and the stylistic coloring of this speech unit by other lexicophraseological and grammatical means than those used in the original.