Proverbs and idioms from the comedy “Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov (as compared to Slovak and English translations)
Journal: World of the Russian Word
Year: 2024

The article is devoted to the adaptation of proverbs and idioms of Russian origin in the Slovak and English versions of the comedy “Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov. The purpose of the study is the comparison of the Russian text to its translations into foreign languages alongside the stylistic characteristics of paremiological and phraseological units. The source material is the original Russian text “Gore ot uma”, published in 1987 by Publishing house “Sovetskii pisatel”, and its translat