Abstract:
A noble translator uncovers a text for the target language readers.
An amateur translator, on the other hand, may destroy the prospect, beauty,
and liveliness of the text. Therefore, while translating a text, a translator has
to turn on his/her utmost possible creative aptitude along with a fanciful
imagination of linguistic ability in context. The text “Exercise Book” is a
short story, the translation of “Khata”, extracted from the collection of
Rabindranath Tagore's short stories titled Rabindranath Tagore: Selected
Short Stories, translated by William Radice. This analysis attempts to
explore the emotional narrative and discovers if it interprets the subjectivity
of Uma’s feelings and thoughts depicted in the short story “Khata” relatively.
In addition, this paper is an exertion to understand and scrutinize which
category of the translation does this story follow, while translating a text
whether it is a sense-for-sense translation or word-for-word translation and
whether it is a literary art form or not. For theorizing the translated short
story three translation theories by Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin have
been reconnoitered in the paper.
Keywords: Translator, creative, sense-for-sense, word-for-word, art,
translation
