Adequacy and Equivalency in Literary translation adequacy problems in translation

Each language has its structure, different metaphoric expressions, idiomaticity. Sometimes these mistakes are connected with the translator´s purposes. Some translators believe that they should strictly follow the rules of the source text and express it in the target text. They keep the word order, and they choose the most similar in the phrases. However, the words are used in a figurative sense, or even in a satirical meaning. A translator should know the context of the book, how it is related to the writer's circumstances and conditions of life.

• Each language has its structure, different metaphoric expressions, idiomaticity. Sometimes these mistakes are connected with the translator´s purposes. Some translators believe that they should strictly follow the rules of the source text and express it in the target text. They keep the word order, and they choose the most similar in the phrases. However, the words are used in a figurative sense, or even in a satirical meaning. A translator should know the context of the book, how it is related to the writer's circumstances and conditions of life.
• The main translator’s function is to comprehend the text of another culture, evaluate comprehensibility and express it with the means of the target language. The translator should be able to represent the ideas of the source language with the reasonable and correct methods of the target language.

The quality of the translation is determined with the following factors:

• The quality of the translation is determined with the following factors:
• a) how translator understands the text
• b) his knowledge of cross-cultural differences.
• The main task of the translation is to preserve the meaning of the source text and reflect it in the target text. The more difficult the novel for understanding in the source language, the harder it is to perform an adequate translation of high quality. Only correct knowledge of the source text can help us to create the universal image, which the author has wanted to show.