『채식주의자』의 한국어텍스트와 이탈리아어번역본 비교분석

Abstract

After winning the International Booker Prize in 2016, Han Kang’s 『채식주의자』 is a work that sparked the issue of translation of Korean literature at home and abroad. So far, translation criticism and analysis surrounding 『채식주의자』 have mainly focused on the Korean original 『채식주의자』 and Deborah Smith’s English translation of The Vegetarian, and the translation problem of 『채식주의자』 translated into foreign languages other than English. It can be said that there have been relatively few studies looking at. In this paper, we compare and analyze the Korean original 『채식주의자』 and the Italian translation, La vegetariana, to expand the translation discourse that has focused on the English translation to the Italian translation. The uniqueness of the Italian translation begins with the fact that it is an intermediate version of the English version of The Vegetarian, but it is also revealed through the Italian translator’s attempts to go beyond the boundaries of the English version and bring out the ‘possibility of translation’ inherent in the Korean original. In addition to these characteristics of the Italian translation, we look at the translator’s strategic choices that occur when the culturally heterogeneous Korean original is transferred to the Italian translation, and the ‘active translation’ taken to increase understanding and readability of the original text. The purpose of this paper is to take a look at the newly created 『채식주의자』.