摘要：Any consideration of literary translation as a creation begs the age old question of literalism that opposes source-oriented and target-oriented translators. In translating a literary work, the postulate of dichotomy indicates the operative choice between the ethnocultural (and linguistic) specificity of the original text and its inherent literary esthetic, within which textual rhythm is a central aspect among others. It seems that the insistance that is too often put on the intercultural gap is more or less overly determined by ideological unthoughts. But the literary creativity of a translation is an esthetic and not an ideological strategy. Having said this, the very idea of creativity in this context is an aporetic tendency, although it is definitely implemented in superior translations.
