Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
Translation as a Form of Intercultural Communication

Verfall (decline) Details in Thomas Mann's novel “Buddenbrooks” and its Georgian Translation

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  • Nino Kvirikadze
Nino Kvirikadze
Akaki Tsereteli State University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.17.2024.8746

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • Th. Mann's “Buddenbrooks”,
  • Verfall details,
  • 'word/verbal series',
  • the German and Georgian languages,
  • Georgian translation,
  • weakening the sound of decline
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Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the semantic study of Verfall details in Th. Mann's novel “Buddenbrooks” and its Georgian translation. The study of the Verfall details including the title of the novel meaning “fissure”, “crack” (i.e. decline of the Buddenbrooks family) has demonstrated that the Georgian translation of these details only partially correspond to the original text.

Georgian recipients in 12 cases are unable to comprehend the meaning of the title of the novel Of course, this circumstance greatly weakens the sounding of Verfall of an old burgher family in translated text.

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