Victor Pelevin’s works as a hypertext: solving translation problems
Victor Pelevin is one of the most popular modern Russian authors, widely read both at home and abroad. Translators of his works, however, have to deal with a great number of complex problems stemming from the specific semiotic nature of the national-cultural component of his vertical context (i.e. realia, quotations, allusions, idioms). The article suggests approaching Pelevin’s works as a single semiotically homogeneous hypertext within the framework of which the translator is free to use substitution and compensation strategies to avoid cultural default.