of the Boris Akunin’s «Azazel» translation into English
The article considers axiological linguistic macrostrategies in the translation of the Russian
postmodernist fiction text into English. The text under consideration is the novel Azazel by Boris
Akunin and its translation into English The Winter Queen by A. Bromfield. The article aims
at revealing the key and background macrostrategies of translation investigated in the axiological
linguistic aspect. The most effective macrostrategy in Russian fiction text translation into English
is adaptation. The bipolarity of this macrostrategy (adaptation/foreigning) is caused either by the
source text acculturation into the target language culture or, vice versa, targeting at the «otherness
» effect of the source text. Translating Azazel by Boris Akunin into English, A. Bromfield
mostly uses the axiological linguistic macrostrategy of adaptation (he adapts proper names and
cultural realities of the Boris Akunin’s text). The background adaptation strategy used in the
translation of Azazel is modernization. In the situations of factual mistakes made by the author
A. Bromfield uses the elimination of a text fragment, giving the reader a possibility to get the
correct information in cultural and historic realities of the late 19th – early 20th centuries.
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