CIRCULAR CONCEPT IMPLICATION IN JAMES JOYCE’s FINNEGANS WAKE AND ITS INTERLINGUAL TRANSFER

The paper looks at certain aspects of the circular concept in Finnegans Wake , the final experimental work of the writer. The way it is implicated in the lexical layer of the novel’s structure is analyzed, its language game principle is revealed. The full and incomplete versions of Finnegans Wake in German (H. Beck, D. Stündel, F. Rathjen), Russian (A. Rene, A. Volokhonsky, S. Divakov) and Spanish (V. Pozanco, M. Zabaloy) languages are explored. Various translation strategies are considered. Although brilliant decisions for the units transferring circular concept are exemplified, they are predictably subjective, as it is the translator who figures out and interprets informative substrate semantically and logically associated with reality. As a result of the necessary radical transformation of the source text the reader gets the modified version of Finnegans Wake rather than a translation in the true sense.