林少华是我国当代著名日本文学翻译家，尤以翻译村上春树文学而为大众所熟知。他的译文在中国大陆推动了一种社会文化现象的形成，从而引起了学者们对翻译的广泛关注和探讨。林少华很少谈论具象层面的翻译实践，多从抽象层面言及翻译。文章从文学翻译的性质、文学翻译的标准、文学翻译者的定位三个维度，全面梳理林少华翻译观，并对其进行系统化探讨，以观林少华翻译观核心之所在。
Lin Shaohua, a famous translator of Japanese literatures in contemporary China, is well-known for his translations of Murakami Haruki. His translation has promoted the formation of a social and cultural phenomenon in the mainland of China, which has aroused the wide attention and discussions on translation. Lin does not talk about detailed translation techniques much, but in a more abstractive way, which can reflect the traditional philosophy of China. In this paper, Lin shaohua’s views on translation are comprehensively sorted out, and from the three dimensions of the nature of literary translation, the standard of literary translation and the orientation of literary translators, this paper makes a comprehensive analysis of Lin shaohua’s translation view, and makes a systematic discussion on it, with a view to the core of Lin shaohua’s translation view.
