Özet:

Translation, which can be defined as a process of transfer from one language to another in general sense, is a versatile process with its related meanings and functions. Although literature translation is more difficult to define as it includes all the creative and artistic uses unlike the general definition, it can be described as a process that should reflect the meaning and the message of the source text, and a process of a transfer to the target literature text by maintaining the source text with its semantic, syntactic and stylistic features. During the literature translation process, there may occur some losses due to some situations such as different linguistic features of the languages, misunderstandings, ambiguity of meaning or preferences of interpreters. In the case of the dominance of these losses, some problems such as the loss of information and the inability to provide the message of the source text in the target text can arise. In recent years, the concept of equivalence, which is involved in almost all of the studies related to translation, is also addressed in this study. The equivalence principle, aiming at creating the same effect on the translation reader as on the reader of the source text, is not always applicable in the translation process. The reason for this may be the difference of language structures in the target language from those in the source language. While some differ- ences between languages lead to the loss of translation in itself, there are also intermediate language effects on the translation. If a text is translated from a source language into an intermediate language and then this intermediate language is assumed as the source language and translated to another language, the loss of translation is inevitable in this process. In such cases, there is a great deal of responsibility of the translators for translating the text with little loss. In today’s world, translation is an inevitable phenomenon and it has a very important place for transferring international cul-ture and knowledge. The current study examines a translation of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz’s Yevme Kutile’z-Za‘îm into the target language Turkish from the source language Arabic and the intermediate language English, and investigates the syntactic, semantic and cultural translation. For the analysis, the translations were evaluated through comparative analysis method based on equivalence at word level and equivalence above word level from Mona Baker’s equivalence classification. 

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