GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS USED IN AMERICAN FICTION TRANSLATIONWITH THE FOCUS ON E. POE TALES
The article addresses the problems of achieving adequacy in the process of American fiction translation into Russian and the ways of their overcoming. The research is focused on the works of Edgar Allan Poe translated by A. Startsev and R. Pomerantsov. Careful examination of the main transformation types and their classification including lexical, grammatical and complex transformations was undertaken in the research together with the theoretical argumentation of their reasonable usage for retaining the author’s style uniqueness and cultural component preservation in the target language.