This article discusses the fact that in recent years, the scope of scientific research on works representing the culture of the nation, texts in the fields of translation, linguistics, cultural studies, sociology is growing. In particular, in translation studies, the national-cultural features of the translation of fiction reflecting the culture of the nation and strategies for their translation, the parameters of translation equivalence and adequacy in the translated text, the phenomena of interlingual communication through translation and mediation are studied as objects of research.