THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND THE CHALLENGES THAT IT POSES TO THE LITERARY TRANSLATOR
The author has chosen to do a Master’s translation thesis on one of the most important modern Arabic novels - Zhakirat al-jisd (known in English as either Memory in the Flesh or The Bridges of Constantine ) penned by an Algerian woman writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi on the Algerian war of independence and the aftermath thereof. This article describes some of the challenges that this particular kind of literary translation presents - namely, the morphology of the Arabic language and the part it can play in a work of literature. The author of the article presents her own ways of replicating (when possible) the morphological stylistic devices of the original in the Russian language.