『마음』 번역의 문제점 - ‘선생님과 유서’를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The work 『Kokoro』, the most favorite novel by Japanese was written by Sosaeki at the age of forty eight. There are also difficulties of archaic style in his work contained the erudite author’s experiences and many problems the culture of language, one hundred year ago, involves in translating this work into Korean. If that is the case, how well were the Korean versions of 『Heart』translated by overcoming difficulties in Korea? I have found several problems as a analysis of seven books which were translated Japanese into Korean. There are many cases such as mistranslated ‘reason(道理)で’, which means ‘somehow or other’ into ‘reason(道理)’, ‘controling desires(摂慾)’, which means ‘moderate desires’, in that case, ‘controling desires’ was mistranslated into ‘hypocritical desire(徦慾)’, ‘appetite(食慾)’, ‘desires of ingestion(攝取)’, ‘new year(春)’ was mistranslated into ‘spring’, ‘decisive action with firmness of character and courage’(果敢ない), which means ‘feebleness’, was mistranslated into ‘being in vain, useless, and hopeless’, 「meyauni,～のやうに」, which means ‘being different’ was mistranslated into ‘as or like’, ‘Keeping consistency(鷹揚) and patience(我慢)’ was mistranslated into ‘inconsistency’. As pointed out above, there’s no discretionary Korean versions. To the limit of space, I can point out so many errors of translation, and a separate volume can be not enough to publish. That’ why there will be many errors and mistranslation according to translator’s insufficient ability of grasping the meaning from the context. Most readers, who can not read the original work, read the book, 『Heart』, only believing translators. This thesis proves that Korean readers read 『Heart』, the version of translation which was mistranslated misapprehending the meaning as a translator.