The translation is recognized to be the transfer of conceptual and pragmatic meaning of a text, while formal literalness can be sacrificed (using the linguis- tic means available in the target language to adequately express the content). The author considers the variative cases of grammatical lacunar units elimina- tion in the translation of texts with an artistic orientation. The purpose of the article is to observe and describe the manifestation of grammatical lacunarity in literature prose texts in the language pair English — Russian and find the optimal ways for transmitting the author’s artistic intentions to other languag- es. Similarities and differences of equivalent categories in different languages are revealed by means of the comparative-typological method as a synchronic and fundamentally pragmatic method. Various literature sources, demon- strating grammatical lacunarity in written discourse are used as illustrative and study material. We analyse theoretical substantiation of grammatical la- cunarity and show the ways of translating the patterns with void units. The problem solution required a comparison of the grammatical forms’ semantics, pragma-semantic analysis of translational correspondences, taking into ac- count the equivalence degree. Cultural discourse patterns are possible to be translated without dropping any contextual pragmatic colouring by means of various translating strategies, but in this case, formal literalness will be sacri- ficed. The findings of the article can be implemented in teaching theoretical and practical linguistic courses.