英文摘要 |
Interpretation and translation have something in common, that is, both interpretation and translation must confront a fundamental question: what is to be interpreted/ translated? Interpretation, as well as translation, is situated in a double-bind, since the reference is dispensable for interpretation, and yet, interpretation is by nature a differential element for any given text. Hence interpretation needs a ground as its destination and yet, at the same time, its destination necessarily designates differences. Similar to yet by no means identical with interpretation, translation is involved with this double-bind insofar as an objective standard for translation cannot be discarded and at the same time translation is not an innocent vehicle for communication between different linguistic systems—this is source of the complexity of translation. To think about the double bind in which translation and interpretation are situated, the issue of “meaning” must be raised; hence the determination of meaning in any given text embodies the struggle for the control of meaning between author, reader, interpreter and translator. This paper attempts to present an understanding of this struggle for the control of meaning in terms of Nietzsche’s notion of will-to-power along with the example illustrated in Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon in order to seek a new way to reconsider the principles of fidelity and freedom which have long dominated the criteria of interpretation and translation. |