周氏兄弟的《域外小说集》:翻译规范的失与得

Translation Norms:the Lost and Found in Short Stories from Abroad Translated Lu Xun and his Brother

今天译界高度关注和评价的《域外小说集》在近代文化语境中的接受和传播并不成功。从翻译规范的视角考察,周氏兄弟的翻译动机、翻译策略、翻译语言形式以及选目的文学现代意识均偏离了主流的政治叙述和翻译规范,难以得到读者的认同,不易转化为中国近代急需的文化资源。但《域外小说集》的失败却促进了周氏兄弟以及译界同仁在新文学运动中探索和参与新兴翻译规范的构建。

Short Stories from Abroad,co-translated by Lu Xun and his brother almost a century ago,although positively appraised and much reviewed,was not well received as a matter of fact. From the perspective of translational norms,we may find that the purpose of the translators,the translation strategies and the classical literary Chinese language employed by the translators as well as the modernity of the stories themselves turned out to be in irreconcilable conflict with the public narratives and the mainstream of translational norms at that time. The stories translated could hardly be accepted by the readers and therefore failed to be transformed into cultural resources urgently needed then. This failure,however,resulted in a kind of exploration and construction of new norms,an innovative endeavor made by Lu Xun,his brother and their contemporary translators in the New Cultural Movement.