On Preserving the Text Implication in English-Russian Fiction Translation

Abstract

This article presents the issue of preserving the textual implication during the process of the English-Russian fiction translation. Basing on the W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Creative Impulse”, the authors analyze the textual implication, which is believed to be mandatory before the actual translation of any fiction. The textual implication is composed of separate indications scattered in different places in the text. The authors’ goal is to provide a rough pretranslation analysis of the story. W. Somerset Maugham’s poetics and style as presented in “The Creative Impulse” is the object of such analysis in this article.