Lars Saabye Christensen's Beatles

This study concerns literary translation strategies specifically applied to the translation of Beatles - a contemporary Norwegian novel. The novel concerns the cross-cultural impact of the Beatles and the production of culture and its impact on young people internationally in a dawning age of mass media. Each of the novel's four characters identifies with a member of the group hence the pseudo-relationship each has with his celebrity idol illuminates how a pop-cultural influence becomes central to developing identities and negotiating adolescence.