PECULIARITIES OF TRANSLATION OF REALIA: PROPER NAMES AND TOPONYMS (ON THE MATERIAL OF HISTORICAL NOVEL "BEN HUR" BY LEW WALLACE)
The article considers such concepts as language and culture, linguistic world image, connotation of names of famous historical heroes and place-names in fiction, peculiarities of translating realia: proper names and toponyms on the material of historical novel Ben Hur by Lew Wallace. Realia translation is one of the most complicated and urgent issues in translation theory. When researching methods of translation of antique, Old Testament and Early Christian realia it is necessary to take into account the overlapping of three linguistic world images: of Hebrew (or Latin), English and Russian, as well as their time co-relation.