本帖最后由 叶如钢 于 2015-5-1 00:03 编辑
不对照原作， 不可能得出准确的评判。 翻译的最基本原则是精准。 最高原则也是精准。
下面这个英文版是很忠实于瑞典文原作的。 流派网上的读者， 还是有一些懂英文的。 所以我贴在这里供各位参考：
Gogol
The jacket threadbare as a wolf pack.
The face like a marble slab.
Sitting in the circle of his letters in the grove that rustles
with scorn and error,
the heart blowing like a scrap of paper through the inhospitable
passageways.
The sunset is now creeping like a fox over this country,
igniting the grass in a mere moment.
Space is full of horns and hooves underneath
the barouche glides like a shadow between my father’s
lit courtyards.
St. Petersburg on the same latitude as annihilation
(did you see the beauty in the leaning tower)
and around the ice-bound tenements floating like a jellyfish
the poor man in his cloak.
And here, enveloped in fasts, is the man who before was surrounded by the herds of laughter,
but these have long since taken themselves to tracts far above the tree line.
Men’s unsteady tables.
Look outside, see how darkness burns hard a whole galaxy of souls.
Rise up then on your chariot of fire and leave the country!
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发表于 2015-4-30 20:55
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可能是我的表述不足所致。昨天，有人在诗人朋友圈质疑我的资格，因为不懂英语、瑞典语，我的回答是作为中文译作的读者就是我的资格。这短文论及翻译本身应还是极少的，我知道，这是有能力要求的。文中，更多只是就中文译作进行比较，并且采用了个人性的理解。我也无意为译者辩护，辩护是没有意义的。