Translator as Narrator: Aspects of Narratology in Translation

This study examines Genette’s narratology concepts to highlight the important relationship between translation and narratology utilizing comparative analysis of original and translated texts. The translator’s task requires an awareness of the need to study a literary text within the framework of narrative theories, gaining insight into the intricate and complex narratological qualities that define its literariness, which should also be recreated in the target language. Drawing inspiration from Russian formalism and structuralism of the early to mid-twentieth century, translation studies scholars have highlighted the importance of narrative concepts in literary texts when discussing how to recreate literariness in the target language. Once again, this study underscores that translation is a multidisciplinary act essential to literary and linguistic studies.