근대기 문학어의 고안과 중역(重譯) : 베를렌 시 번역을 둘러싼 논란과 함의에 대하여

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that translation, especially relay translation from Japanese, was important driving force in the establishment process of writings in the verse form during the modern times in Korea. For this purpose, This article focused on the circumstances in which “Un grand sommeil noir” by Paul-Marie Verlaine translated into Korean by Kim Eok was imitated and plagiarized by his contemporary literary youths including Noh Ja-yeong and facilitated his creative efforts. They had a difficult time reproducing their special emotions and feelings in the verse form as the writing subjects. This article shed light on the styles in which they projected their own interpretations and linguistic senses onto the vocabulary and rhetoric of the translated poems and had them to themselves. This article also focused on the fact that Kim Eok translated poems by Paul-Marie Verlaine not based on their original French texts but on their relay translations from English and Japanese poetry books. The special focus was on the fact that the texts of the translated poems that were creative classics to Kim Eok and Noh Ja-yeong were indeed the laminated products of heterogeneous languages. This article demonstrated that the writing in the verse form during the modern times in Korea derived from these laminated products. It also focused on the background in which Kim Eok and Noh Ja-yeong consistently highlighted that their relay translations and imitations were direct translations. Kim Eok made the argument out of his intense desire and obsession for the modern literature and modernity of the West.