The First Translation of a Chinese Drama into a European Language: Le petit orphelin de la maison de Tchao.
A partial translation of the Yuan dynasty drama The Orphan of the Zhao Family by the Jesuit missionary Joseph Henri-Marie de Prémare was published in Paris in 1735. As the first example of a Chinese theatrical work becoming known in Europe, the translation had a vast impact and gave rise to the comp...
| Publicado en: | Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 309 - 349 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec 2021
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| Sumario: | A partial translation of the Yuan dynasty drama The Orphan of the Zhao Family by the Jesuit missionary Joseph Henri-Marie de Prémare was published in Paris in 1735. As the first example of a Chinese theatrical work becoming known in Europe, the translation had a vast impact and gave rise to the composition of some European plays which, to varying degrees, were inspired by it. The present study focuses not on these adaptations, but on Prémare's translation itself. In recognising its central role both in the formation of a European perception of Chinese literature and in the history of the development of Sinology, this study is an investigation of the linguistic and cultural modalities through which Prémare managed to present to the European reader, at least in part, the moral tension that animates the drama, despite the objective difficulty present in every transcoding operation – especially in the earlier works – and the subjective ambition to provide an image of China that was not excessively "pagan." 於 1731 年耶穌會傳教士馬若瑟將元朝雜劇《趙氏孤兒》翻譯成法文。作為最早流傳到西方的中國戲曲譯本，他的作品對於歐洲文壇的影響相當大，短時間內幾位著名劇作家把它改編上演。該譯本除了影響到歐洲人對中國文學的認識與了解之外，對於漢學發展史也扮演了一個重要的角色。如今學者們研究《趙氏孤兒》時，多著重於那些歐洲改編版，本文將範圍設定在馬若瑟所編節譯本。 通過與原文多方位的比較，筆者不但試圖分析馬若瑟以哪些方式克服了兩種完全不同語言差異的問題，而且想要了解在天主教價值觀的制約下，到什麼程度他還能夠使歐洲讀者意識到原劇所呈現的中華道德觀的特色。 |
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