The article considers translators’ practice of leaving personal names in translations as they appear in the original. A name is the primary characteristic of a literary character that the reader encounters, and a literary character often represents an entire work in the reader’s memory, frequently appearing in the title (e.g., Anna Karenina or Oliver Twist). The article weighs the effects of using original names in translations, including their phonetic impression, with a focus on translations from Slovenian, and it concludes that translators into English have gradually come to preserve Slovenian spellings.
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