무라카미 하루키(村上春樹) 『바람의 노래를 들어라(風の歌を聴け)』 한국어 번역에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This study aimed to compare and examine a Korean version of Haruki Murakami’s novel Hear the Wind Sing, focusing on errors in translation from Japanese into Korean, in terms of content, especially lexical equivalence. The study identified five types of errors as follows. First, the Korean translation makes it difficult for readers to accurately understand the content by reading Chinese characters of Japanese phonetically or clearing up the meaning of Chinese characters for translation. Second, grammatical errors are caused by translating into expressions that do not fit the lexical usage or grammar of target language. Third, supplementary comments, such as notes by translators, are not added even though the reader cannot correctly understand the content of the original text with formally equivalent expressions. Fourth, it does not accurately convey the meaning and nuance of sentences by translating into formally equivalent expressions or general expressions. Fifth, the translation does not reflect the image, nuance, and specificity of sentences because translated words were selected without considering the meaning of sentences and the flow of the context. Translation errors hinder the fidelity and readability of the original text, thereby hindering the reader's understanding of literary works. In other words, the breadth of the reader's understanding of literary works is determined by the capability of translators. Therefore, translators must consider a variety of translation methods to reduce such errors.