김남주 번역의 양상과 특성에 대한 연구 -번역을 통한 정치성의 관철 과정을 중심으로

Abstract

Poet Kim Namjoo translated into Korean works by Neruda, Heine, Brecht, Pushkin, Mayakovsky and Aragon. This paper aims at observing how the pecularities of his literary translations might have influenced her own poetic writing. First of all, we shall look at the “translational horizon”, that is the status of translation in Kim Namjoo’s surroundings, and the reasons and motives for his translations. In a second time, we shall compare his translations of Heine, Brecht and Aragon with other existing Korean translations, in order to find out what is original, revolutionary, partisan in his translations. Third, we shall examine the quality of Kim Namjoo’s translations as an assessment of his own poetry. The textual and historical values that both Kim Namjoo’s poems and translated poems hold are engaged with one another, which makes it all the more important to study his translation work. He tried to reveal his own identity as a poet and as a champion of revolution throughout the texts of the poets he translated. Instead of trying to reflect the great diversity of the poets he translated, he used them as a ground from which he could draw the spirituality he needed in his political fight. Just as his own poems, the translations by Kim Namjoo are the by-product of his struggle, so much that the political dimension they bare need to be adressed. While his translations deflect subjectively the value of the original poems, Kim Namjoo had the ambition to import the political and rebellious aspects of the poets he chose to translate into Korea at a time when it was barren in its literature and its history.