于“评论”中见真知——本雅明“纯语言”概念的贝尔曼解读

Genuine understanding generated in “commentary”: an Antoine Berman's reading of Walter Benjamin's “pure language”

法国译论家贝尔曼(Antoine Berman)在《翻译的时代》一书中,以对文本进行深度耕犁的"评论"视角,对本雅明的《译者的任务》一文进行了解读,对文中若干晦翳不明之处做出了详尽诠释。本文试图循着贝氏的解读进路,重新审视本雅明最易招致后世研究者断章取义形成误读的"纯语言"概念以及与之密切相关的"直译"理念,以期辨明它们在本雅明语境下的真实理论指向。

In his work L＇Age de la traduction,the French translation theorist Antoine Berman subjects Benjamin＇s The Task of the Translator to a textual anatomy from the distinctive＂commentary＂perspective and clarifies in great detail several places of ambiguity and obscurity identified in the text. Following the line of inquiry offered by L＇ge de la traduction this paper undertakes a reexamination both of Benjamin＇s ＂pure language＂— a concept highly susceptible to decontextualized misinterpretations by scholars of later generations — and of the idea＂literality＂closely related to＂pure language＂. In doing so,I wish to pinpoint the theoretical connotations of the two as Benjamin initially implies.