Untranslated world literature: The Chinese novels of César Aira

IF 2.2 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Yunfei Bai
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ABSTRACT Through a new perspective that critically draws on the latest findings of world literature studies, this article adds insight to non-translation – a topic thus far under-researched in translation studies – by probing its correlation with insufficient mediation as well as censorship (both real and potential). Specifically, the article focuses on the intriguing exclusion of two China- and Chinatown-themed works of fiction by Argentine writer César Aira, Una novela china and El mármol, from the author’s nine titles recently available in Chinese translation. I argue that the “political incorrectness” of both works in the current PRC context, compounded by a US publisher’s restrictive, filtered, yet indispensable mediation, has left Aira’s Chinese novels – paradigmatic of transculturality and worldliness in an age of globalization – both untranslated and untranslatable for the Chinese book market in the foreseeable future.
未译的世界文学:蔡文杰的中国小说
本文从一个全新的视角,批判性地借鉴世界文学研究的最新成果,探讨非翻译与中介不足以及审查(现实的和潜在的)之间的关系,为非翻译这一翻译研究中迄今尚未得到充分研究的话题提供了新的视角。具体来说,本文关注的是阿根廷作家csamar Aira最近出版的九本中文译本中,将两部以中国和唐人街为主题的小说《Una novela China》和《El mármol》排除在外的有趣现象。我认为,这两部作品在当前中国语境下的“政治不正确”,加上美国出版商的限制性、过滤性、但不可或缺的调解,使得艾拉的中国小说——全球化时代的跨文化性和世俗性的典范——在可预见的未来,在中国图书市场上既无法翻译,也无法翻译。
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