In the current study, I propose an analysis of style in literary translation, a branch of translation that involves aesthetic texts like novels. I take the author’s style to be a defining component of such texts. The author reveals values, identities, emotions, personalities, feelings, and ideas inherent in his or her cultural background and expresses them in specific, unique ways.

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