Translating Similes from English into Russian: a Case of Stephen King’s “The Shining”

Literary texts are vivid illustrations of a culture’s worldview. A variety of stylistic devices play an important role in the creation of literary texts as they help to transmit vibrant images. Due to the process of globalization, more and more literary works are translated into different languages and, therefore, it is of utmost importance to carry out a representative translation so that target language speakers have the same impression from the text as the source language ones. Similes can present obstacles for translation as they are often culturally influenced, and their creation depends on the individual writing style of an author. In this paper, I concentrate on the peculiarities of simile translation in Stephen King’s The Shining and analyze both the types of similes deployed by the author in the novel and the translational transformations used to render these tropes into Russian.