Artistic and Cultural Value of Proper Names in "Heart of a Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov: on the background of the Chinese Translations
The author argues that the names in fiction serve important ideological and artistic functions, they can always show the author's worldview. However, in the translation of a literary texts these functions and the author's intentions sometimes can not be shown. In this article the names in the story "Heart of a Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov are examined, trying to identify the role of these names, and to examine if their translation into Chinese can play the same role or not.