Literary Translation

The services of a literary (philological) translation are of high demand in the market of translation services. When working with a fiction, only a professional translator having the experience of translation of literary texts can do a really good work. Literary translation is a solution of several tasks: the actual translation work, saving the author's style atmosphere, the transfer of individual features of the author's language and adapting the product to the cultural context of each language audience.

Linguists of Martin Translation Services possess the experience and skills sufficient for literary translation. During its work, the company has implemented a number of projects of the translation of various books and philosophical treatises. The literary translation may include the translation of promotional materials, as well as the voice-over for feature films and commercials. To make a literary translation into foreign languages, we recommend you to use the service of a translation by native speaking linguists. In this case, the cost of translation slightly increases, but you get a guarantee against possible stylistic errors.

Specifics of Literary Translation

A literary translation can only be made by translators fluent in a foreign language, no matter from/into which language the text is translated. Moreover, it is necessary to know the most common dialects. As any foreign language can have more than a dozen dialects that are used today, and these dialects differ a lot from each other.

But the language skills alone are not enough. To make a literary translation, one must possess the talent of a writer. The translator must understand the text as a whole and to feel its every word. He must understand how important the word is in the text. And only after that, based on the sense of the text, he may do the translation. In practice, a literary translation is the re-creation of the author's work, with the transfer of the language culture and its specifics. And the most important, the translated text should not lose the emotional color, the author's personality, which were inherent in the original text. This is a really difficult thing. Ideally, a literary translation of texts must be made by a native speaker.

Literary translation is the translation of journalism, advertising materials, public speeches, letters, scripts, fiction. And each case calls for a special approach,. as the style of a detective novel differs significantly from the style of promotional materials or newsletters. And translation of a script has nothing to do with the translation of conventional letters.

A special position in the translation business belongs to the translation of poems. Here the translator's task is further complicated - it is necessary not only to convey all the subtleties of the text, but also give them a poetic form. To do this, the language skills alone are not enough, you need to be a poet, at least a little bit. Of course, every translator has his/her own way of translating a literary text. Some of them prefer free interpretation, and some prefer the verbatim transfer of the text meaning. This explains the abundance of versions of the translation of one and the same literary creation.

Martin Translation Services will make literary translations, as close as possible to the original text, from a literary masterpiece to light popular fiction, newspapers, presentations, magazines, etc. The result of the order fulfilled will always be a quality and professional literary translation.

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