Strategies of Literary Translation

Literary translation includes a wide range of activities that deal not only with fiction or poetry but with popular science essays, newspaper articles, diaries, memoirs, etc. These different kinds texts presuppose different strategies and criteria of translation processing. The unified approach to consider them integrally as nonstrictly determined translation opposed to strictly determined translation. The difference between the two manifests itself mainly in the proportion of and covert regulations and criteria for the choice of equivalents. Literary translation is a covertly process, which is connected with a number of complications, i.e. personal nature of texts translation (authorship); unspecified audience; interlingual and intercultural inequality; and others. The lack of systemic criteria determines the use of intuitive choices, such as observer-, - or enlightener-strategy