Style in Translation: Saleh Hosseni's Style Through Translation Universals in his Persian Translation of Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury

This paper examines th e styl e of Sale h Hosseini a s a literary translator in his p ersian translation of F aulkner 's the Sound and the Fury in the light of Baker 's universals of translation. First, the paper discusses why in the field of translation the translator 's style seems to be less important than that of the original writer. The paradoxical issue is that if the writer 's style is important, how is it possible for a translator to show his finger print in the translation? Secondly, the paper studies Hosseini's style in the light of the universals of translation proposed by Mona Baker, among others: explicitation, simplification, levelling out and normalization. Finally, the results show that Hosseni has got his own style and that normalization is his most frequent style in translation.