단독-보편의 언어로 쓴 터의 서사: 조바니 베르가의 리얼리즘과 D. H. 로런스의 번역 (The Narrative of Place in the Language of the Singular-Universal: Giovanni Verga's Realism and D. H. Lawrence's Translation)

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· 발행기관 : 한국로렌스학회
· 수록지 정보 : D.H. 로렌스 연구 / 32권 / 85 ~ 113페이지
· 저자명 : 박여선

초록

Lawrence once said that we do not understand the Greeks and only translate them into another being. Rather than diminishing its achievement, this suggests translation’s importance as a means of penetrating the Other. This paper examines how Lawrence and Verga translate Italy’s ‘spirit of place’ into the singular-universalist language of their own narrative of place in resistance to modernism’s particular-generalist narrative of space.
As the middle-class Tuscan dialect came to dominate the unified Italy, the national literature alienated other regional idioms and threatened to write the harsh life of the provinces out of the collective consciousness. Verga’s creation of a narrative of Sicily can be seen as a critical response to this. As in England, so in Italy issues of geography were a question of politics and the creation of an art that gave aesthetic expression to alienated regions in the universal form of fiction was essentially political. In this context, Verga’s project is analogous to what Lawrence attempts in Sons and Lovers. Verga, however, had to face the more complicated problem of the Sicilian dialect. Translating the Sicilian of his peasants into the superficial bourgeois language of the time would destroy the communication of their intense, singular feelings, yet he needed to translate them into a more accessible language. Consequently, he has to invent a new dialect, and this is exactly what Lawrence in turn attempts in his subsequent English translations of Verga.
Both authors concentrate on the primitive passions of people rooted in place as the realization of the spirit of place. In both Verga’s and Lawrence’s ‘translations’, the singularity of this spirit survives the homogenizing forces of space which permeate modernity. The language they create is itself a means of creating the narrative of place, of Sicily and other places ‘in-between’.

영어초록

Lawrence once said that we do not understand the Greeks and only translate them into another being. Rather than diminishing its achievement, this suggests translation’s importance as a means of penetrating the Other. This paper examines how Lawrence and Verga translate Italy’s ‘spirit of place’ into the singular-universalist language of their own narrative of place in resistance to modernism’s particular-generalist narrative of space.
As the middle-class Tuscan dialect came to dominate the unified Italy, the national literature alienated other regional idioms and threatened to write the harsh life of the provinces out of the collective consciousness. Verga’s creation of a narrative of Sicily can be seen as a critical response to this. As in England, so in Italy issues of geography were a question of politics and the creation of an art that gave aesthetic expression to alienated regions in the universal form of fiction was essentially political. In this context, Verga’s project is analogous to what Lawrence attempts in Sons and Lovers. Verga, however, had to face the more complicated problem of the Sicilian dialect. Translating the Sicilian of his peasants into the superficial bourgeois language of the time would destroy the communication of their intense, singular feelings, yet he needed to translate them into a more accessible language. Consequently, he has to invent a new dialect, and this is exactly what Lawrence in turn attempts in his subsequent English translations of Verga.
Both authors concentrate on the primitive passions of people rooted in place as the realization of the spirit of place. In both Verga’s and Lawrence’s ‘translations’, the singularity of this spirit survives the homogenizing forces of space which permeate modernity. The language they create is itself a means of creating the narrative of place, of Sicily and other places ‘in-between’.

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