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The purpose of this paper is to describe to what extent the literary style of free direct discourse has been shifted or preserved in a novel of Korean-to-English translation, “Whatever happened to the guy stuck in the elevator” by Kim Youngwha. This will be done within the framework of Relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1995). What is argued for is the marked literary style of free direct discourse which produces stylistic effect is best accounted for in terms of maximal relevance; on the contrary, optimal relevance is relevant to the unmarked literary style of (in)direct speech. This paper has also found that no less than 50 percent of the literary style of free direct speech of the source text has been shifted to (in)direct speech in the English target text, making the poetic effect of the target text far less weakened than that of the source text. To describe the stylistic effect of free direct discourse, in this paper, we have subcategorized free direct discourse into strong and weak free direct discourse. What is shifted, no matter whether it is strong or weak, from free direct discourse to its weakened style amounts to 90 percents, making the stylistic effect of the source text neutralized in its target text.