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- “Evangelical text” of the novel “Crime and Punishment” in Vietnamese translation
- Nguyen Thi Hoan, Yermilova G.G. “Evangelical text” of the novel “Crime and Punishment” in Vietnamese translation. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2020, vol. 26, № 2, pp. 148–152 (In Russ.). DOI https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-3-148-152
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-3-148-152
- УДК: 821.161.1.09”19”
- Publish date: 2020-06-11
- Annotation: The article for the first time explores the translation of the ‟evangelical text” of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel ‟Crime and Punishment” into Vietnamese. The ‟evangelical text” refers to the New Testament quotations, for the first time both in the writer's work and in the Russian literature of the 19th century as a whole, widely used by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Three authoritative translations by Trương Định Cư (1972), Lý Quốc Sinh (1973), Cao Xuân Hạo (1982-1983) are involved. The translation of the Bible into Vietnamese used by translators and involved in the liturgical practice of the Vietnamese Orthodox Church, has been revealed. On the basis of a continuous text sample of the "evangelical text" three translations were compared with the original and reverse translations, followed by an analytical commentary. The subject of the article is a monologue of "drunken" Semyon Marmeladov in the tavern (p. 1, ch. 2), saturated with New Testament quotations, and an evangelical scene about raised Lazarus (p. 4, ch. 4). It is concluded that when translating the "evangelical text" of the novel, the Vietnamese translators experienced serious difficulties due to ignorance of Russian Orthodoxy, which is still perceived in Vietnam to this day as a kind of exotic. Some specific refinements to existing translations are proposed.
- Keywords: Evangelical text, Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment", equivalence, translation, interculture, Christian culture, difficulty
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