Abstract. The study focuses on realia as words denoting objects and concepts specific to the way of life, culture and socio-historical development of a certain nation and as a specific part of the lexical system of each language and focuses on the problems of their translation in fiction. The text examines four Slavic translations of Georgi Gospodinov‘s novel „Time Shelter“ (in Czech, Slovak, Croatian and Slovenian) and presents the various possibilities of translation strategies. The text focuses only on the realiа of the culinary field, presenting cases of finding functional equivalents in translation.
Key words: realia, literary translation, equivalence
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This text is published within the framework of the project: 80-10-119 | 28.05.2025, „Practical course in Bulgarian language. Phraseology“, funded by the National Research Institute at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“.
REFERENCES
FLORIN, S. 1993: Realia in translation. In: Zlateva, Palma (ed.), Translation as Social Action. Russian and Bulgarian Perspectives. London: Routledge, 122–128.
HENDRICH, J. 1986: Didaktika cizích jazyků. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství.
HRDLIČKA, M. 1990. K překladu tzv. bezekvivalentní slovní zásoby. In: Ruština v teorii a praxi č. 1, 1990, 14–18.
IVANOVA, Ts. 2024: Kulinarnite nedorazumenia na balgarsko-srabskata ezikova granitsa. In: Elektronno spisanie LiterNet, 15.06.2004, № 6 (55), dostapno na: https://liternet.bg/publish10/civanova/kulinarnite.htm.
LEGURSKA, P. 2015: Realii i perevod. Slavjanskij mir v tret‘em tysjacheletii. Ratnyj podvig i mirnyj trud v istorii i kul‘ture slavjanskih narodov. Otv. Red. E.S. Uzeneva. Moskva, ISl RAN, 2015, 323–344.
MIHAYLOVA, S. 2024: Presazdavane na natsionalnoobagrena leksika na chuzhd ezik: obrazat na Don Kihot v izbrani prevodi. Studia Litteraria Serdicensia, godina IV, 2024, kniga 7, dostapno na https://studialiteraria.eu/bg/archive/year-2024/issue-7/preszdavane-na-nacionalnoobagrena-leksika-na-chuzhd-ezik-obrazt-na-don.
NAYDENOVA, Y. 2012: Ungarskite realii v konteksta na kulturnia transfer. Sofia: Iztok-Zapad.
NAYDENOVA, Y. 2018: Kulturologichni parametri na prevoda. S ogled na povestta „Zhaltata roza“ ot Mor Yokai, 2018, AKSLIT – akademichen krag po sravnitelno literaturoznanie, dostapno na https://calic-bg.eu/conferens/images-and-mirages/105-kulturologichni-parametri-na-prevoda.html.
NISHEVA, B. 2013: Bezekvivalentnata leksika v uchebnitsite po balgarski ezik za chuzhdentsi. In: Opera Slavica. 2013, vol. 23, iss. 4, 295–302, dostapno na https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/default/files/pdf/129036.pdf.
RADEVA, V. 2012: Balgarski talkoven rechnik. Sofia: Iztok-Zapad.
SIMONOVA-GROZDEVA, V. 2013: Izgrazhdane na umenia za prevod na natsionalnoobagreni dumi – predizvikatelstvoto na gratskite realii. In: Nauchni trudove. Plovdivski universitet „Paisiy Hilendarski“, tom 51, kn. 1, sb. B, 2013 – filologia, str. 128–137, dostapno na: https://lib.uni-plovdiv.net/bitstream/handle/123456789/402/NTF_2013_51_1_B_128_137.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
SIMONOVA-GROZDEVA, V. 2017: Nablyudenia varhu predavaneto na bezekvivalentna leksika v hudozhestvenia prevod ot balgarski ezik na gratski ezik i obratno. In: Societas Classica, 2017, volume 9, Isuue 1, 163–184, dostapno na https://journals.uni-vt.bg/sc/bul/vol9/iss1/art13.
VLAHOV, S., FLORIN, S. 1980: Neperevodimoe v perevode. Moskva: Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija.
VLAHOV, S., FLORIN, S. 1990: Neprevodimoto v prevoda. Sofia: Nauka i izkustvo.
