Two Chinese translations of the title of the novel “Chapaev”. From socialist realism to postmodernism

Abstract

The article studies an issue of translating titles of literary works from Russian into Chinese. The author emphasizes that the title is one of the key positions in the text that influences readers’ perception of the image. The importance of choosing a title for the internal and external value of the work is also discussed. Using the example of the novel “Chapaev” by D.A. Furmanov, the author analyses the translation of the titles into Chinese, taking into account the peculiarities of the Chinese cultural and linguistic environment. The results of the study allow concluding that the semantics of each morpheme is important in translating the titles of literary works. The novelty of the article lies in applying diachronic analysis of translation variants of the novel “Chapaev”, as well as discussing the connection between human consciousness and individual fragments of a word.