Sprachspielereien im literarischen Text und übersetzerische Entscheidungen

The playful use of language is a stylistic device that can be frequently observed in literary texts. It involves considerable challenges for translation, especially when it concerns idiomaticity and linguistic variation, which require, in any case, careful consideration of textual embedding. This paper will discuss examples of wordplay, creative usage of figurative expressions and register variation in a German crime novel and its Italian translations.