노신의 「번역에 관한 서한」 중 답신 번역 (Chinese-Korean Translation of “A Letter about Translation” of Lu Xun)

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초록

Lu Xun, known as one of major Chinese writers, was also interested in translation, so introduced several foreign works including Japanese, German, British, American and Russian ones to China. For him, however, translation was not a simple task, but a mission with public purpose. During the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, there were two trends and followers in the Chinese literary world: bourgeoisie reformists, who valued liberty and personality and wanted to learn western culture, like Liang Qi Chao, Yan Fu, and Lin Shu social democrats who desired to accept ideas from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that called for liberation of the oppressed people, like Lu Xun and Qu Qiu Bai.
In early days, Lu Xun plainly accepted the style of ‘Tong Cheng Pai’, which translates foreign novels to Chinese archaic text, but later he objected to this traditional approach and developed a new translation style: a literal translation. Using Bai Hua, written colloquial Chinese that is faithful to the original works, the new style helped introduce modern capitalism of the western world with no distortion. Lu and Qu Qiu Bai upheld an idea that as for translating foreign works, faithfulness to the original works should be put before the beauty of form, and thus translators needed to use ordinary people’s language Bai Hua rather than archaic text of noble people.
This is about A Letter about Translation in Er Xin Ji by Lu Xun, which was released in Wen Xue Yue Bao in 1932. It was written to reply to Qu Qiu Bai’s letters that were published in Shi Zi Jie Tou with a title of the Theory of Translation on December 11th and 25th of 1931. The introduction of this thesis explains the historical backgrounds of Lu’s translation theory and circumstances hanging over the letters. The main body includes a translation of A Letter about Translation. Based on a translation theory of postmodernism, which emphasizes on the close relationship that translation has with ‘history’ and ‘reality’, the conclusion of the thesis reviews Lu’s translation theory to make translation a means of practice in China in the 19th century.

영어초록

Lu Xun, known as one of major Chinese writers, was also interested in translation, so introduced several foreign works including Japanese, German, British, American and Russian ones to China. For him, however, translation was not a simple task, but a mission with public purpose. During the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, there were two trends and followers in the Chinese literary world: bourgeoisie reformists, who valued liberty and personality and wanted to learn western culture, like Liang Qi Chao, Yan Fu, and Lin Shu social democrats who desired to accept ideas from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that called for liberation of the oppressed people, like Lu Xun and Qu Qiu Bai.
In early days, Lu Xun plainly accepted the style of ‘Tong Cheng Pai’, which translates foreign novels to Chinese archaic text, but later he objected to this traditional approach and developed a new translation style: a literal translation. Using Bai Hua, written colloquial Chinese that is faithful to the original works, the new style helped introduce modern capitalism of the western world with no distortion. Lu and Qu Qiu Bai upheld an idea that as for translating foreign works, faithfulness to the original works should be put before the beauty of form, and thus translators needed to use ordinary people’s language Bai Hua rather than archaic text of noble people.
This is about A Letter about Translation in Er Xin Ji by Lu Xun, which was released in Wen Xue Yue Bao in 1932. It was written to reply to Qu Qiu Bai’s letters that were published in Shi Zi Jie Tou with a title of the Theory of Translation on December 11th and 25th of 1931. The introduction of this thesis explains the historical backgrounds of Lu’s translation theory and circumstances hanging over the letters. The main body includes a translation of A Letter about Translation. Based on a translation theory of postmodernism, which emphasizes on the close relationship that translation has with ‘history’ and ‘reality’, the conclusion of the thesis reviews Lu’s translation theory to make translation a means of practice in China in the 19th century.

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