Modern Technology in Literary Translation: Translation Analysis of Selected Excerpts from Shamil Idiatullin's Novel Gorod Brezhnev

The aim of this diploma thesis was to examine how automated translation (AT) tools handle a stylistically demanding literary text and whether they can be useful either for generating translations or as an analytical aid for translators. The theoretical part introduces the principles, performance, and current applications of the most widely used AT tools -machine translation (MT) systems and chatbots - and outlines key characteristics of literary texts and literary translation. It also presents translation strategies for especially challenging features and concludes by discussing specific uses of AT tools in literary translation, including their advantages and risks. The empirical part consists of a detailed analysis of the novel Gorod Brezhnev by the Russian author Shamil Idiatullin (used in the experiment with the author's consent), the research methodology, and the experiment's results. The experiment included selected models of Gemini (2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash, including Deep Research-DR-variants), ChatGPT (GPT 4.0, the o4-mini model with the "think" feature and o4-mini with DR), as well as Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT 4.1 available within Perplexity chatbot. Their outputs were compared with the traditional MT system DeepL. The tools were tasked with translating a selected excerpt fromthe novel from...