| Keywords: | onomastic game, interlingual rendering, semantic depth, translatability, James Joyce
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| Abstracts: | This paper aims to explore certain features of Joyce’s onomastic space in Finnegans Wake. The relevance stems from the need to identify translation strategies for rendering the complex onomastic wordplay and intertextual cultural codes in James Joyce’s modernist novel. The study employs the continuous sampling method, descriptive, comparative, contextual, and intertextual analyses. A set of the author’s experimental techniques based on language games involving proper names is analyzed. The encoding of anthroponym Anna Livia Plurabelle is described in detail, underlining its ability to complicate perception and translation due to the diversity of possible interpretations. Fragmentary and complete versions of Finnegans Wake in Russian (by A. Sergeev, A. Volokhonsky, S. Divakov, O. Bragina, A. Rene), German (U. Blumenbach and R. Markner, K. Reichert, H. Beck, D. Stündel, I. Horn, K. Jauslin, H. Wollschläger, R. Weninger, F. Rathjen), and Spanish (M. Zabaloy) are compared. The translation strategies are explored and regularities in translation methods are figured out. To render J. Joyce’s onomastic language games translators are compelled to “deform” the target language. It is concluded that the structural similarities and differences of the source and the target languages influence the extent to which translators can transfer word-formation and phonetic features of the encoded anthroponym, making, for example, German a more appropriate “tool” than Russian for translating the novel.
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| The contact details of authors: | Naugolnykh, Evgenia Andreevna – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Pharmaceutical Terminology, Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Perm, Russia, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8071-8148, pulina_jane@mail.ru
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