[[alternative]]On The Bridge of Heaven Written and Translated by S.I. Hsiung

[[abstract]]The thesis aims to discuss the myth of "authority" with teh case of S.I.Hsiung's English novel, The Bridge of Heaven, and his own translation in Chinese, trying to elaborage on the equality between the author-as-translator and the non-author translators. The thesis includes 7 chapters. Chapter 1 explains the research purpose and the motivation and outlines teh author of The Bridge of Heaven and the background behind his works. Chapter 2 details the research methods. Chapter 3 focues on literature review, in which the papers about subjectivity and intersubjectivity will be discussed so as to clarify the relationship between the subjectivity does not act as the sole principle for translation; the concept of "the death of author" will be used to break the myth of "authority" so as to subvert the view of father-son relationship that the works was born to its author. Chapter 5 turns to discuss teh translator's subjectivity , arguing that the non-author translators have their own subjectivity different from that of the author's. Hans-Georg Gadamer's viewpoints ofn the historicity of languages will be cited to break the advocacy that the author's own translation is the ideal paradigm. Chapter 6 empasizes on the complementary functions among different translations. Four passages of The Bridge of Heaven will be tgranslated following the principle of loyal to the original words. The translations will work as comparison to S.I.Hsiung's own translation. The purpose is to show different effects fo diversified translations under various subjectivity. Moreover, different translations will touch different points of the original works and displays many aspects of the original. Chapter 7 summarizes that the author's own translation is not necessarily perfect and other non-author translators definitely have the space to let their Muse sing.