style in translation: saleh hosseni's style through translation universals in his persian translation of faulkner's the sound and the fury

this paper examines th e styl e of sale h hosseini a s a literary translator in his p ersian translation of f aulkner 's the sound and the fury in the light of baker 's universals of translation . first , the paper discusses why in the field of translation the translator 's style seems to be less important than that of the original writer . the paradoxical issue is that if the writer 's style is important , how is it possible for a translator to show his finger print in the translation ? secondly , the paper studies hosseini's style in the light of the universals of translation proposed by mona baker , among others : explicitation , simplification , levelling out and normalization . finally , the results show that hosseni has got his own style and that normalization is his most frequent style in translation.