意识形态对安徒生童话译介的操纵——以《卖火柴的女孩》中文译本为例

Chinese Reading of "The Match Girl" and Ideologically Manipulated Translation of Anderson's Fairy Tales

通过分析安徒生的作品《卖火柴的女孩》在中国的误读和接受,探讨意识形态对安徒生童话译介的操纵。《卖火柴的女孩》在中国家喻户晓,通常解读为安徒生通过卖火柴的女孩的死揭露和抨击罪恶社会制度,表达了作者对劳动人民的深切同情。但分析该文的创作背景,从宗教文化的角度看,却并非如此,造成误读的原因在于中西方读者的文化差异,而译者则受意识形态的制控,有意识地回避之,是对原文的一种"叛逆"。

This paper takes the reception of H.C. Anderson＇s ＂The Match Girl＂ in China as an exemplar illustrating the way the Chinese translation of his fairy tales in general is subject to ideological manipulation. One of Anderson＇s best-known fairy tales,＂The Match Girl＂ has always been construed by its Chinese readers as a condemnation of the evil capitalist system, and as an expression of his sympathy for its victims as well. Yet neither Anderson＇s literary background nor his religious upbringing would support such an interpretation. What accounts for this prevalent misreading is in part the cultural differences between the Danish and the Chinese readers, and in part a deliberate suppression of such differences by the Chinese translator who chose to betray the original text rather than resist the dominant ideology＇s impact upon literary translation.