The Linguopoetic Representation of Adolescent Psychology in The Works of Khaled Hosseini and its Translation Analysis

Abstract

This article examines the literary representation of adolescent psychology in the works of Khaled Hosseini and analyzes the interpretative problems that emerge in translation. The study mainly focuses on the novels The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed, in which adolescent characters experience personal crisis, emotional trauma, guilt, love, betrayal, and social alienation. The research employs comparative-literary, linguopoetic, psychological, and translation studies approaches to investigate how adolescent emotions and psychological states are conveyed through narrative structure, stylistic devices, and linguistic means of expression. Furthermore, the article explores how these emotional and cultural nuances are interpreted and recreated in translation, emphasizing the importance of preserving psychological depth and communicative impact. The analysis demonstrates that adolescence in Hosseini’s fiction is portrayed not merely as a biological stage, but as a psychologically transformative period shaped by war, family expectations, cultural conflict, and moral responsibility. The study also reveals that successful literary translation requires not only semantic equivalence but also the reconstruction of emotional atmosphere and cognitive perception in the target language.