文化回译下的自译研究--以《狄仁杰奇案》为例

The Chinese Maze Murders as a Case for Studying Self-translation from the Perspective of Cultural Back-translation

本文结合高罗佩的《狄仁杰奇案》自译兼回译个案,探讨了自译过程中自译主体翻译规律,从叙事视角转换、叙事情节添饰、文化元素回译等角度管窥自译的主体行为轨迹,探求高氏自译本在异语创作→西方传播→作者自译的多层次文化回溯过程中,自译者"译中有创"的翻译行为特征,探讨了兼具自译与回译的自译本中对中国文化的传承和延续,为自译研究提供一定参照。

The Chinese Maze Murders van Gulik,is a product of self-translation and back translation.This paper explores the author/translator’s subjectivity as manifested in the self-translation process,analyzing the translating subject’s behavioral trajectory in terms of perspective shift,plot expansion,and back-translation of cultural elements.In generalizing on the patterns of the author/translator’s translational behavior in the multi-layered cultural backtracking process,the paper looks also into the inheritance and continuation of Chinese culture in the self-translated version.