20세기 이백(李白) 시(詩) 번역 논쟁을 통해 본 이병기(李秉岐) 『이태백시선(李太白詩選)』 번역 특징 고찰 = Characteristics of Lee Byong-Gi’s Translations of Li Po Poems Through Translation Disputes in the 20th Century

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Through the argument of 聞一多 and Shigeyoshi Obata over the translation of Li Po poems in the early 20th century, this paper tries to point out the problems that we will think about today’s translation of Chinese poetry. For this purpose, we would like to analyze the case of “The Works of Li Po” translated by Lee Byong-gi, a major achievement of the Korean translated poetry in the 20th century.
Leaning on the reviews of the past critics, 聞一多 screened Li Po poem’s “Good” and “Bad” while choose Poetry. But When recalling that the original reader is clearly different from the translated poetry’s reader, the translator should take the reader into consideration.
In the case of “The Works of Li Po” translated by Lee Byong-gi, it reflects the historical situation of Japanese colonial era, so 閑適 type poems longing for the hermit world beyond reality were dominant. Also, as it is a Korean translation, the poems related to Korean or Korean history were specially selected.
Through the analysis of “The Works of Li Po” translation cases, we could see that following vocabulary, word order, and vocabulary combination that fit the context of translated poem was more suitable for having poetic taste than being bound to the original vocabulary, word order, or vocabulary combination. And, it was desirable to translate a proper noun by omitting or solving it as necessary rather than relying on footnotes.