Translation in Literature: A Creative and Truth Pursuing Process.

Translation in literature with its truth pursuing nature and divine origin is the knowledge generating process moving towards the realization of higher values in the evolutionary process. Being a knowledge promoting power, literary translation gives a new life to the text as it emancipates it from the bondages of literalism and slavish imitation, hence in its holistic perspective it becomes a truth seeking power. While translating a literary text, the translator does not concentrate on literal meaning of the words, but takes various implications of the word into consideration and thereby with its creative energy generates a new meaning. In literature translation becomes operative with its emphasis on creativity as the translator has access to some sort of universal sense of meaning whose essence is reflected in the translated text. A true or faithful translator favors the recreation of the aesthetic beauty. Literary translation provides a new life to a text through the creative process of cross fertilization, therefore translation in literature becomes a life giving force as it crosses the authorial boundaries of the source text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]