ENGLISHING OF ISMAIL KADARE’S “THE SIEGE”AS AN INDIRECT TRANSLATION

Indirect translation is an old tradition in translation and still occurs nowadays. In Albania, as regards translation from Albanian into English, we are facing indirect translation phenomenon for most of Kadare`s works, since they have been translated and are being translated into English through their first translation from Albanian in French. The paper undertakes to explain the notion of “indirect translation”, reasons and disadvantages behind this sort of translation and shows that it has been present throughout the history of translation and is still evident in the current situation of translations. Moreover it focuses on the phenomenon of Kadare’s translated works into English, providing examples from the translation of the work “The Siege”, as a clear example of indirect translation and provides some ideas to challenge this phenomenon in the future. Although this sort of translation is not considered as the best and ideal option, it is present and is closely related with foreign literature in translation. There is, however, ample evidence throughout history of successful and highly esteemed indirect translations, as well as of failed and inadequate direct translations, even though they tend to be less well remembered. The overall idea implied in this paper is that although translations of Kadare’s workseither as direct or indirect translations facilitate communication between peoples and their cultures, they double the translation loss, but despite this fact they should be accepted as alternative options, but they should not be considered as perfect options