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Literary & Script Translation

It is universally acknowledged that every writer has a literary style and that his style is reflected in his writing.

The outcome of the writer's personality, his emotions at the moment, and no single paragraph can be put together without revealing to some degree the personality of its author.

There is no doubt that different literary works have discernibly different styles.

Literary works and scripts are art created in language. What we demand of them is not merely the recording of concepts and incidents; they should also contain artistic images that are attractive to readers. The reader must have a strong feeling toward the characters' thought and behavior through the artistic images portrayed in the works.

How is translating a book or script different than regular document translation?

The goal of this type of translation is to reproduce the original artistic images in another language, so that the reader of the translation may be inspired, moved and aesthetically entertained in the same way as the native reader is by the original.

Such a translation is not purely a technical change in language, but it requires that the translator duplicate the author's process of artistic creation, grasp the spirit of the original, find the most appropriate expression of his own thought, feeling and experience, and reproduce fully and correctly the content and form of the original in a literary language comparable to the original style.

Wording here means choice of words and rhetorical devices. Every word must be weighed carefully and every figure of speech dealt with seriously. Proper words in proper places define a style.

In addition, it is essential to have a working knowledge of the other culture, of its conventions, manners, and concept of humor, as well as of mourning, and its emotionality in general.