Narrative theory : selected excerpts of "extraordinary origins of everyday things"

الملخص EN

Narrative theory is applied to investigate translated texts.

For Baker, narratives are stories that are designated and assumed through translating a literary text.

Subsequently, these stories affect the behavior of the translator towards other people and the events that are embedded in the text.

The novel, “Extra Ordinary Origins of Everyday Thing” has been chosen as a source language text for this study.

The comparison is made between the original text and the translated version in order to explore narratives.

It is noted that the translator acts as a storyteller hence the translated text is shaped according to his/her ideology and behavior.

In other words, the identity of the translator which is based on social and cultural factors affects the translation.