“KOBZAR” IN GE BAOQUAN’S TRANSLATION: FEATURES OF RENDERING NATIONALLY SPECIFIC REALITIES
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Abstract
The poetry of Taras Shevchenko has had a profound influence on the development of Ukrainian national literature. His poetry has not only high literary value, but also far-reaching critical significance of social reality, profound humanistic thoughts, and genuine national concern, which have had an extensive impact on the construction of Ukrainian national identity. The national specifics of Shevchenko’s poetry are mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the insistence on using the Ukrainian language for literary creation; second, the Heavy use of Ukrainian national words (realia); third, using binary opposition to shape characters. In the 1920s, Chinese translators began to pay attention to Shevchenko’s poems. One of the authoritative scholars in China’s translation and research of Shevchenko is Ge Baoquan. In 1983, Shevchenko’s collection of Poems “Kobzar” translated into Chinese by Ge Baoquan, Ren Rongrong, Zhang Tiexian, and Meng Hai was published. Then, after he visited Ukraine, Ge Baoquan decided to retranslate “Kobzar” directly from Ukrainian, which was published in 1990 and became a classic version. Literary works often contain a large number of “realia”, which are a concentrated reflection of a nation’s specifics and are therefore one of the difficulties in translation. When translating realia in “Kobzar”, Ge Baoquan always adheres to the principle of “faithfulness” and adopts a strategy of alienation to fully present a colorful Ukrainian culture world to Chinese readers. It is precisely because of Ge Baoquan’s insistence on the strategy of alienation that the Ukrainian nationalities in “Kobzar” (in Chinese translation) have been fully preserved. This paper takes the “Kobzar” (translated by Ge Baoquan in 1990) as the research object and examines the translator’s specific translation strategies for words expressing Ukrainian nationalities from the perspective of the “realia” concept.
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Taras Shevchenko, Ge Baoquan, realia, nationality
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