Literary translation

Have you read works of foreign authors in original? Quite the difference, no?

Translating a book means re-writing it, no trendy diploma  will help — you must agree, it's not an easy task... After all, a literary translator is essentially a man (or woman) of letters and he (or she) cannot do without a Muse.

Literary translation implies a liveliness of wit and talent - to convey a feeling, color, atmosphere, even smells... to immerse you into a world of dreams.

It is very difficult to find this kind of translator, you can take our word for it. To analyze an order for literary translation, we review many aspects: the topic, the style, the direction and the customer's requirements - all of these help us define the criteria for the translator.

You can discuss any aspect of literary translation with our manager.
Here are just a few examples of the problematic:

Literality

Many translators make the most notorious and terrible mistake - they do word-for-word translations, like robots, without a feeling or simplest logic. As a result, we get a dead and uninteresting text, absolutely incomprehensible to a reader. Put your trust with professionals, or ask us to translate a trial page, — everything will become clear by just that.

Humor

In most cases, a good joke from one language cannot be rendered equally well in another language — this is not because of a lack of language skill, but rather because of language and cultural differences. It is better to replace it with an appropriate Russian joke, or simply to explain it and just hint a the gist.

Stylistics of Russian Language

I haven’t accidentally written Russian Language with a capital L – and it's not for nothing that the English write "English language" with a capital letter. Stylistics of Russian language – there lies the secret of a good translation and of a good book. Everything is simple and everything is complicated at the same time.