ANALYSIS OF DMYTRO LYSYCHENKO’S TRANSLATION OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S NOVEL «THE LOST WORLD»

Abstract

The article focuses on the comparative analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World and its translation produced by Dmytro Lysychenko. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to clarify to what extent the translator succeeds in rendering the author’s individual style, the genre specificity of adventure science fiction, and the culture bound words of the early twentieth century. The novelty of the research lies in a comprehensive analysis of the lexico-semantic, stylistic, and cultural aspects of the translation. The paper examines the stylistic features of the original, particularly the combination of reportorial narrative, ironic tone, scientific description, and dynamic adventure plot, and traces their reflection in the translation. The main translation transformations (transcription, modulation, concretization, calquing) and the strategies used to render neologisms (transcription, transliteration, calquing, concretization), proper names (transliteration, transcription, calquing, adaptation) and fantastical terminology (calquing, concretization, transliteration, transcription) are identified. It is shown that Dmytro Lysychenko combines foreignization and domestication strategies, preserving the cultural flavour of the English source text while ensuring its readability for the Ukrainian reader. The study proves that the translator successfully reproduces the expressiveness, as well as the quasi-documentary and scientific character of the narrative, making use of slightly archaic lexical choices that are nevertheless natural for contemporary Ukrainian literary style. It is concluded that Dmytro Lysychenko’s translation is qualitatively adequate and contributes to the development of the Ukrainian school of literary translation.