Persian Translation of Adjectives in the Impressionist Style ofJoseph Conrad: the Case of Heart of Darkness

In this study, conrad's unique style of adiectival features in heart of darkness andtwo persian translations of this novella were investigated to see what types ofprocedures had been used by the two translators, and to make sure whichprocedures were appropriate in conveying conrad's impressionist style. thecorpus was investigated using the antconc software, and the equivalents wereextracted from the translations. the results demonstrated that conrad's heart ofdarkness is rich in adiectives. also, most of the adiectives were descriptive andsemantically ambiguous showing the author's attitude and perception towards hissurrounding so as to impress the reader and to trigger contemplation, in line withthe principles of his impressionist style. the study also demonstrated that despitethe fact that conrad's prose is considered as poetic, successful transferring of hisstyle into persian was found not to be impossible. however, such an achievementrequires the familiarity of the translatorwith conrad's style, on the one hand, andemploying appropriate translation procedures, on the other.