Translating the translingual text

This article examines strategies applied in selected passages of Elena Petrova’s Russian translation Olga Grushin’s anglophone novel The Dream Life Sukhanov (2005). is set Moscow during the late Soviet period and depicts a crisis precipitated by changes brought glasnost life loyal apparatchik. Although Russian-American writer Grushin composed her adopted language English, it reflects cultural subtext contains numerous linguistic elements allusions. It therefore interesting to analyze how these are rendered translation, entitled Zhizn’ Sukhanova v snovideniiakh (2011). analysis followed consideration challenges posed translingual texts theoretical understandings translation. argues that established concepts within studies, such as domestication, foreignization, source target language, not well-suited cases literary translingualism.