Transforming literature: the hermeneutics of translation [articol]

Abstract

This article focuses on the manner in which the translator signals her presence in the translation of Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. In the light offered by semiotics and componential analysis, I will attempt to illustrate the differences regarding shades of meaning, the appropriateness of lexemes in the given context and the occasional inaccuracies that emerge in the TT. The study will also prove that receptor response is usually challenged by the effect the content, form and style of the ST had on the translator and that it loses its importance if the translation has not been previously evaluated