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The last century 60's USA linguist Eugene Nida first proposed the "dynamic equivalence translation principle", and quickly popular. The late 70's early 80's functionalist translation theory began to rise. German translation theorist Rice put the text type, functions and translation methods to link up. According to the text different functions into three types: informative text, expressive texts and performative text. In 1978, Fimmel in the "framework for a general theory of translation" a book for the first time the skopos theory, the core theory of functionalism. On the basis of theory of Rice and Nord Vermeer, further into the "function plus loyalty" principle, the formation of functionalist translation theory more complete system of. The theory of functionalism, get rid of the shackles of equivalence theory, holds that translation is a cross language, cross-cultural activity, initiative that the translator, has had a major impact on the development of translation theory. The basic concept of the functionalist translation theory and the theoretical framework, combined with the characteristics of literary translation, the famous German writer Bernhard Schlink's novel "the reader" as a case, with its Chinese versions as the research object, the two versions of translation examples of analysis, from the angle of pragmatics, language, culture, chapter, discusses the problems which appeared in literary translation and its translation strategies. In this paper, from the perspective of translation criticism, the original cultural background, language characteristics, contents and structure are summarized, the author of the original intention of writing, narrative style to do a simple introduction. Based on the translator's interview, comprehensive chapters, external factors, in literary translation criticism, analysis of a case. Through comparative study, this paper considers two versions, although Each has its own merits., but from the functionalist translation theory, a new version of Mr. Qian Dingping to write in the translation problems and the choice of translation strategies on the superior, not only retains the narrative style of the original, and in line with the writing norms China literary works.
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