Translating Nadsat from English into Russian: The Case of "A Clockwork Orange"

Student: Perelygina Alina

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2020

In this paper, the author analyzes the Russian translations of Antony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. Special emphasis in the paper is put on a constructed language called Nadsat, which is used in the novel by its characters. According to the paper’s hypothesis, none of the existing translations is representative enough from the point of view of S. Tyulenev’s theory of translation representativity. Aside from the theoretical part, the paper’s author also conducts a practical research, namely, an analysis of the translations’ readers’ perception of Nadsat.

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