The perspective of fidelity in the translations of Herta Müller’s work

Herta Müller’s books are specifically addressed to a fairly wide readership. Translations, however, limit the scope of understanding, as they either reproduce untranslated structures from German culture, or cancel the writer›s voice in favour of the translator›s writing talent. Herta Müller’s work proves much more translatable for the Romanian reader than for any other reader. Even for Germans, the writer’s prose causes problems in some places, especially when she juggles lines from Romanian folk songs, when she utters love curses or when she curses with pathos like Romanians from Banat. The translations of the works of the German writer tend to avoid the means of intensification from the source text and exaggerate the features of the target language.