Yaşar Kemal’in “Hüyükteki Nar Ağacı” adlı Eserinin “Granatapfelbaum” adlı Çevirisine Dilsel, Toplumsal ve Çeviribilimsel Bir Bakış

We realize a translation process every time we use the communication tool which is called language and varies across the world. Indeed, the action we perform is to translate our thoughts and emotions into words. Human beings always perform translation action orally or in written even when they sustain discussions in their minds. Therefore, language and translation can never be separated. Language always exists where translation is and translation exists where language is. Through translation, we can know different cultures and worlds and expand our horizon and perspectives. As we follow the differences and developments in the world through translations to Turkish Language, other cultures get informed about us and our culture through translations from Turkish to their own languages. Literary translation is the first to spring to our minds when written translation is mentioned. Literary texts have aesthetic and affective function rather than informative value and aim to touch emotionally and entertain readers rather than moving or informing. Recently, our authors have produced valuable works in Turkish literature and these works have been involved in world literature through transfers to foreign languages. Of those authors, Yaşar Kemal, who has a unique and contemporary artist identity with his synthesis and style he acquired using sagas, elegies, folk stories, fairy tales, fables, folk songs and contemporary novel techniques- the products of oral narrative tradition of Anatolian people-, is one of the important figures in Turkish and World Literature with his image word through his direct and indirect expression, and narration through similes, descriptions, depiction of nature with all its aspects, the language he used, local words, idioms, proverbs, appeals and cursing. Hüyükteki Nar Ağacı, about which Yaşar Kemal stated that “one of my works where I best expressed nature-human relations”, is about the tragedy of seasonal workers who fell out of work as a result of introducing tractors to agriculture and the great shadow of capitalism on Çukurova. This study examines Hüyükteki Nar Ağacı by Yaşar Kemal, which was translated to German and has an important place in Turkish Literature, through comparing its German translation in target language with source language, and determined and discussed the problems regarding style, culture, grammar and artistic language use.