走出喬志高的影子？評析The Great Gatsby在臺灣中譯概況

Abstract

本研究透過翻譯史分析研究美國小說家F. Scott Fitzgerald的The Great Gatsby在台灣流通發行的中譯本概況，並採取文獻比較分析法，結合部分譯者的訪談及相關譯評的整理，進行在台灣自第一本The Great Gatsby中譯本——黃淑慎的《永恆之戀》——問世後，各個時期中譯版本與喬志高的譯本《大亨小傳》的比較，勾勒出時空環境因素及彼此譯作的交互影響，進一步了解喬志高譯版的影響及各時期譯者在這段譯史中的活動概況。The Great Gatsby中譯本從美國冷戰時期文化大外宣的一環，之後成為出版社暢銷書單及美語學習用書。The Great Gatsby中譯本在台灣的概況，除了反映喬志高的譯本《大亨小傳》的深遠影響，同時也呈現譯者主體性逐漸顯現，職業化及專業訓練的趨向。儘管喬志高譯版的影響仍在，我們仍能觀察到後期譯者們試圖以譯文風格或翻譯策略挑戰喬志高的經典譯作。

This study is to research and analyze The Great Gatsby’s Chinese translations in Taiwan through historical perspective, document analysis and interviews of translators, tracing the first Chinese Edition Yong-Heng-Chih-Lian (The Eternal Love) written by Shu-Sheng Huang and comparing the following tranlations with George Kao’s translation, and understanding those translators’ performance and contribution.The Great Gatsby had been utilized originally as part of US’s cultural diplomacy in Cold War and has become one of the best-selling books and English learning material. The novel’s Chinese translations in Taiwan not only reflect the influence of George Kao’s translation, but show the growing presence of translators, who took translation training and have more experience, and, the most important of all, using their writing styles or translation strategies to step out and challenge George Kao’s shadow in their own time.