Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the translating techniques applied by the English publisher and translator Andrew Bromfield while dealing with the vocabulary with culture specific connotation of Perestroika period in the novel “Vera Pavlovna’s Ninth Dream” by V. Pelevin. The works by V.Pelevin abound in various allusions to the life of Soviet and post-Soviet society, which may cause a lot of trouble to the translator in the process of translating them into English. In turn, in case of mistakes or distortions in the process of translation, these allusions and realia of Soviet life may become a barrier in understanding the translated work by the foreign language reader. The article makes the distinction between such important notions as realia, terms and lexical gap. The authors analyse translating techniques applied by the translator such as selecting absolute and relative equivalents, contextual description of lexical gap, calques, generalization, concretization, descriptive method. The article demonstrates that the translator has to deal with two things at once – deciphering the text of V. Pelevin and translating it into English.
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