COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE OF N.V. GOGOL "EVENINGS ON A FARM NEAR DIKANKA" IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN INTERPRETATION
Language of Nikolai Gogol prose is one of the most difficult for translation and interpretation into other languages, that was clearly demonstrated in attempt to translate into English and German his first short stories cycle ''Evenings on a farm near Dikanka''. This work is closely associated with the original Ukraine folk culture. "Evenings" have particular national color, which in addition to the content expressed in the form and style of work, and especially in the lexical level. Special narrative principle, Ukrainisms, colloquial language, all kinds of realias, often unfamiliar even to the Russian readers, constantly cause difficulties in translation process, and are often generally excluded. This article is devoted to the translation of colloquial expressions in "Evenings on a farm". Different translations of Gogol cycle have their advantages and disadvantages, they differently interpreted certain stylistic features, particular dialect and contextual meanings of original language. Translators had a huge task to transfer all the elements of original which represent variations from the norm of common language, but in fact they express the personal writing of the author, Gogol's style of narration.