『三國遺事』 소재 <調信>의 교과서 번역 검토

Abstract

The basics of desirable literature education is to select good literary works, translate them and then build a bridge of appreciation that contributes to their significant growth. Especially because classical literature has different background in various aspects from language issue to historical base that produced a literary work, these kind of works must be conducted. To make right education on the classical literary works written in Chinese, they should be, first of all, translated properly as to transfer the meaning and nuance of the characters themselves or their implications in the original texts so that they may be easily accepted by contemporary students. On top of this, some degree of paraphrasing should be carried out according to academic level of middle and high school students. Only when text books contain the literary materials that have gone through such process strictly, they might have a foundation to understand and appreciate them correctly. This paper reviewed, on <Cho Shin (調信)>, a literary material of 『Samgukyusa (三國遺事)』, an issue whether the translations of the literary works contained in text books satisfied such requirements. The result showed not so much error in the translation of <Cho Shin (調信)>. However, there were not so little part that did not translate them correctly enough to fully reveal the meanings of original texts nor trim the contents to be well understood by students. Particularly, there were many parts deemed to be wrongly described from the viewpoints of context or logic. Considering the fact that such translation of the literary works can hinder teachers and students to read smoothly and understand or appreciate them delicately, this is an important issue that they should be revised or complemented.