This article is about the Turkish translation of Gerhart Hauptmann’s (1862-1946) novel Bahnwärter Thiel (1888), translated by Basir Feyzioğlu in 1946. Thinking that in literary translation the author’s message resulting from the content, form and style of the text has to be transferred, this article analyses some selected passages, sentences, words and idioms by comparing them with the original version and discusses the solutions found by the translator. The article studies to what extent the translator was successful as to the transfer of the author’s originality and message.