Abstract
In “The Translator’s Invisibility”, L.Venuti draws our attention to the relationship between translators and translations through his finding that translators in English-speaking countries, especially in America and Britain, play an invisible role in the process of translation and the translation itself. In fact, apart from domestication and foreignization, translators have other different ways to manipulate the translation. The present paper will analyze two translated texts in Japanese from the perspective of the purpose of the translator, in order to reveal that in translating, selection criteria for the source text and for the notes in the translated text will be used to achieve the translator’s purpose. The two Japanese translations are the earliest collection of Chinese novels that were written after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
