The aim of this article is to examine, within a poststructuralist framework where the source text cannot be said to exist alone, how religious elements are recontextualized in the target culture and how translations affect each other in this repruduction process. To this end, Turkish translations of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's short story Çem Iyudi Jivi (What Men Live By) arediscussed on the basis of Venutian concepts of 'domestication' and 'remainder', and Jacques Derrida's concept of transformation regleé. In Derrida's signification proces, where the signifier and the signified do not coincide, translation becomes a regulated transformation. In line with this view, according to Venuti, conscious or unconscious losses called "remainder" appear in the translation process. In the Turkish translations of Tolstoy's short story, the remainders observed are two folds: the first is the one in the intratextual influence that forms the semiotic structure and texture of the source text; and the second is the remainder left in the source text due to translators’ search for fixing new signs for the religious elements depending on the discursive and ideological circumstances in the target culture. It has been observed that in some translations, the author is reconstructed with a completely different identity due to domestication, while other translators try to create a foreign effect by deconstructing this stable meaning within a temporal loop.