巨虫还是巨虫?卡夫卡的《生命之旅》在文化、社会和生物学语境中的翻译

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Translation and Literature Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.3366/TAL.2021.0463

Andrew Barker

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既然卡夫卡把他的故事叫做《变形记》是可行的，文章首先考虑了为什么大多数译者把《变形记》译为《变形记》而不是字面上的《变形记》。考虑到卡夫卡在1912年写作时达尔文主义和社会达尔文主义的广泛影响，人们特别关注可能影响他选择标题的社会生物学因素。本文进一步探讨了意第绪语戏剧和尼采哲学对卡夫卡的决定可能产生的影响。然后，它考察了译者如何处理故事的开头句子，考虑到翻译“ungeheures Ungeziefer”(字面意思是“可怕的害虫”)的困难，以一种公正的方式表达句子的原始结构和词汇。最后，本文提出了一个可能的解决方案。

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Giant Bug or Monstrous Vermin? Translating Kafka's Die Verwandlung in its Cultural, Social, and Biological Contexts

Since it would have been feasible for Kafka to call his story ‘Die Metamorphose’, the article first considers why most translators render Die Verwandlung as (The) Metamorphosis and not literally as The Transformation. Given the widespread impact of Darwinism and Social Darwinism when Kafka wrote the work in 1912, particular attention is paid to socio-biological factors that may have influenced his choice of title. The article further considers the possible impact of Yiddish theatre and Nietzschean philosophy upon Kafka's decision. It then examines how translators have tackled the story's opening sentence, given the difficulties of rendering the phrase ‘ungeheures Ungeziefer’ (literally ‘monstrous vermin’) in a way that does justice to the sentence's original structure and vocabulary. Finally, the article offers a possible solution to this problem.

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期刊介绍： Translation and Literature is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on English Literature in its foreign relations. Subjects of recent articles have included English translations of Martial, Spenser''s use of Ovid, Eighteenth-Century Satire and Roman dialogue, Basil Bunting''s translations, Finnigans Wake in Italian, and the translation of haiku. Contributors come from many disciplines: * English Literature * Modern Languages * Literary Theory * Classical Studies * Translation Studies Translation and Literature is indexed in the Arts and Humanities bibliographies and bibliographical databases including the Modern Language Association of America International Bibliography.