Trainspotting - Analysis of the german translation of the chapter Strolling through the meadows with the model of Juliane House (Translation Quality Assessment)

Scientific Essay from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature grade: 2 (B) Ruhr-University of Bochum (English Seminar) course: Literature III: Literature Translation language: English abstract: Trainspotting is the title of a novel written by the contemporary Scottish author Irvine Welsh. The plot is set in contemporary Edinburgh i.e. Leith and deals with the lives and experiences of a group of heroin junkies. The chapter we are looking at deals with a nightly walk through the meadows that three of the characters set off to after a visit in a Pub. They are in search of two other mates of them. During their stroll they meet two girls they know and come across a squirrel which two of them attempt to hurt. The attempt is prevented by the third.