Translation naturalness in literary works: English to Persian
Naturalness as well as accuracy and clearness is one of the main features of evaluating translation of literary books. An acceptable translated book is the one which includes all these three factors. Based on the tendencies of translators to create good and natural translation pieces, and to show the necessity of this action, the researcher in this paper tries to study the naturalness flow of some literary short stories in Iran to reveal some strong and weak points of natural translations of some of these books. As such, two research questions are derived in this study: do the short stories meet natural translation? Does the attraction of these stories have relation with their naturalness? The most important reason for choosing these books is that the researcher found that although literary books in Iran have lots of fans especially among students of schools and private English institutions, these books which are written in a simple language and are the summary of some of the great literary books, such as The scarlet letter by Hawthorne, Little women by May Alcott, Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak, etc. show some lacks in translation naturalness. This article covers 4 parts as introduction including theories of naturalness, method, result and discussion, conclusion.