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✍️ How does translation process of novels into regional language helped to spread their popularity?

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Answer 1

English novels translated into regional Indian languages were initially not very popular as the Indian people could not relate to the stories or characters in those novels. People wanted novels that narrated stories close to their own lives and set in their own geographic location.

Novels became important piece of literary work that connected cultures, people

With more and more novels began to be published, a new readership of novel came to be formed. With increase in literacy rate, more people were interested in reading and buying books. Later women, children, workers also became part of the reading culture. Novels also created a sense of shared community, bringing understanding of different cultures, values. Many novels were written in the west that connected the urban people with the plight of rural communities. For example, Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge focused on traditional rural communities and the impact of commercialization and mechanization on the farmers.

Answer 2

The following are the reasons why the translation process of novels into regional language help to spread their popularity:

1. The translation of popular novels in regional language could influence those who could not read it in its original language. This attracted a large population of readers; that make the original novel popular.

2. People with inadequate knowledge of other languages if grow able to read those novels could not relate the characters together. Thus, the translation of these novels gave them an opportunity to read the same novel in their own language.