TRANSLATING OF A FRAGMENTED MILITARY POETIC TEXT INTO GERMAN: PRAGMATIC ASPECT (ON THE MATERIAL OF ARTUR PAVLENKO’S POEM «THREE»)

Abstract

The article considers pragmatic aspect of rendering Artur Pavlenko's poem “Three” into German. Rendering in a foreign language of literary images and ideas encoded in signs and constituting the dialectical unity of the text of the author's military poetry, whose individual style is characterised by internal integrity despite the visual fragmentation of the word, symbolism, is a certain challenge for the translator, and such a text requires a thorough linguistic analysis at the stage of its interpretation. The military discourse in contemporary Ukrainian poetry raises the necessity of revising approaches to stylistic analysis of texts, considering their differences between military and non-military authors. The basis of this study is the German vector of the project of Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, poet and translator Volodymyr Tymchuk “In principle erat Verbum. Ukraine: Poetry of War”. The texts of civilian authors are most frequently characterised by transverse metaphorisation, suggestion or reflection. The texts of military poets are marked by polysemy, spatial and temporal fixation, suggestion, reflection, a combination of suggestion and reflection, and fragmentation of linguistic elements. Promotion of the Ukrainian cause in the free world is the result of work and an honourable mission of a translator. The degree of rendering in the translation text of the relevant meanings of the original lexical unit, and thus semantic, as well as pragmatic, shades and intralinguistic meanings, is a necessity and prerequisite for a high-quality translation. The complexity of the translation of the analysed poem lies in the need to identify the deep extra-textual meaning already at the stage of decoding information, preservation of the text’s form, since it is the key to understanding the ideal, the author's sublimation, with the help of which the addresser (author), despite the visual fragmentation of the text, achieves its internal integrity, thus realising the aesthetic function of the literary work, communicating with the addressee (reader).