법과 문학 사이에서 -키케로 <수사학> 국역본에 대한 촌평: 법정연설(法廷演說) 부분을 예증 삼아-

Abstract

This article is a short review of the newly published Korean translation by

Jae-Won An of Ciceros Partitiones oratoriae (September 2007). Its aim is very

limited, for it surveys only that part of the book which concerns legal

controversies (status legales). The translator tries, in principle, to express in

common Korean, but this attitude leads him very frequently to a translation that

is technically not precise enough and thus incorrect. His understanding of the

Roman legal terms as well as rhetorical termini technici seems to be surprisingly

poor and sometimes even defective. To make the matter worse, his translation of

the latin sentences which include nothing special in terms of vocabulary and

sentence structure is, generally speaking, very often perverting the meaning and

thus estranging readers from Ciceros original intent. The additional explanations

given in the translators notes, too, are now and then incorrect. His Korean

counterparts for latin rhetorical terms, often not uniform and inaccurate, did not

always satisfy the common postulates in the word-formation as well as the

general standards for the technical terminology. As a matter of fact, this

judgement does not touch the whole of the book, but it apparently suggests that

these traits might also hold true for the rest of the book. It must be, therefore,

energetically stressed for him to renew the translation as soon as possible.