Irony as a Universal Author's Technique in the Novel "The Cat's Cradle"

The article investigates the translation of irony used in belles-lettres texts. The semantics of irony consists in replacing a denomination by its opposite. Irony is a transfer, a renaming based upon the direct contrast of two notions: the notion named and the notion meant. There are at least two kinds of irony. The first represents utterances that can have only an ironical. This kind of irony is called by some authors antiphrastic the second variety we can refer the overwhelming majority of utterances which can be understood either literally, or ironically, especially when we deal with written texts.