Ways of achieving the adequacy in translation of intertextual incl usions (ill ustrated in the translations of the novels by Boris Akunin)

Abstract

Translation is an adaptation of a text to another
cultural environment, a new interpretation of the original and
the birth of new meanings in the translators estimation. The
problem of translation of intertext takes an important place
in the theory of translation. Based on the translations of the
Akunins detective novels into English and French, this article
touches upon the problems of interpretation of intertextual insertions.
It is shown that adaptation of stylistic intertextuality
is especially difficult as the author attempts to convey cultural
traditions of the19th century the equivalents of which can be
rarely found in the receiving culture.