S.V. Shervinski's Concept of Translation: Origins, Characteristics and Reception

The present paper is focused on the analysis of S. V. Shervinski’s opinion on different translation problems, as well as its cultural and historical basis. In addition, we examined some texts that show the reaction of critics and readers to the works of a translator. Shervinski’s biography cannot be studied without reference to the main translation discussions of the 20th century. It is widely believed that Shervinski was a “literalist” which means that he attached the greatest importance to the formal features of the original. Using archival materials, such as autobiographical notes, transcripts of the reports and interviews, in the study we tried to show that Shervinski’s ideas were more complicated. They underwent changes because of the search for the most successful approach to decompound the text and transfer it to Russian.