Russian tradition treats ornamental prose as a kind of prose employing additional semantic and rhythmical codes. B. Schulz’s works correspond to this definition, although signals of the secondary coding are not always correlated to their Russian equivalents (both rhythmical formulas and devices of narration). The chosen translation strategies are determined by the translator’s proximity to the aesthetics of Russian ornamentalism and the tradition of Russian ornamental prose.
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