Adequacy or acceptability? toward making the style of the author khnown

Without translation, the style and technique of an author will not go beyond theborders of the author's country. thus translators have an important responsibilityfor making known the style and technique of authors worldwide. in this study,based on toury's notion of 'adequacy' and 'acceptability', it is tried to highlightthe significance of the role of translators in transferring the style of the author. tothis end, virginia woolf's to the lighthouse and its two translations, one by salehhosseini and the other by silvia bejaniyan, are chosen as the corpus of the study.woolf's style in to the lighthouse, known as free indirect discourse, is discussed tosee how the translators have treated her style in persian. it is observed thathosseini, having subjected himself to the st, has been more watchful of woolf'sstyle creating an adequate translation rather than bekmiyan, who, by movingtowards tt, has domesticated the original text producing an acceptable translationhence ignoring woolf's style.