ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ ІДЕЙ ҐО МОЖО ТА МАО ДУНЯ ПРО ПЕРЕКЛАД

Abstract

In the 20th century, two literary stars shone brightly on the Chinese literary scene, Guo Moruo and Mao Dun, who are among the six great literary figures of modern China. They were not only the authors of a large number of literary works, but also took an active part in the process of introducing foreign literature and renewing Chinese literature. For this reason, they both also proved to be excellent translators. This article explores Guo Moruo’s and Mao Dun’s ideas about translation through comparative analysis and reveals a number of similarities on five issues: the criteria of perfect translation, the quality control of translation, the problem of re-translation, the targeting of literary translation, and the critical view of literary translation. In doing so, they diverge in their understanding of the relationship between translation, creativity, and poetic translation. Finally, through a comparative study of their translation ideas, the contributions of Guo Moruo and Mao Dun to Chinese translation theory, the main ideas of the Chinese translation community in the 20th century are shown, and some suggestions for further study and development of translation theory are formulated.