English rendering aspects of M. A. Bulgakov’s "A dog’s heart" conceptsphere

Abstract

The article brings up fiction translation concern. It is stated that the conceptual analysis is an essential part of the pre-translation text analysis. The novelette “A Dog’s Heart” by M.A. Bulgakov was exposed to concept analysis, its conceptsphere was defied. The exteriorization of it was investigated on the basis of the works of Great Britain translators: M. Glenny (1968), A. Sokolov-Pyman (1990), A. Bromfield (2007). On analyzing these translations some searchers mind the essential importance of the culturological commentary. Nevertheless they do not pay considerable attention to the analysis of the conceptsphere, which undergoes a significant transformation while English rendering. The article dwells on the concept analysis of the novelette and shows a conceptual model of the text with the dominating concepts: “order” - “disruption” (dealing with the superficial conflict of the novelette) and “creator” (dealing with the inner personal conflict of P.P. Preobrazhensky). The comparison of the original conceptspehere to the rendered ones showed that the social and political problematics of the novelette is rendered properly, whereas the philosophical issues are either not given in the translations or distorted significantly.