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¡¡¡¡Innovative translation is to break the bound of creation and translation. What the concept of innovative translation aims at is not an original work in the guise of a translation, but some kind of “genuine” translation as an ideal target language text. It involves the translator’s awareness of subjectivity. What Gideon Toury’s notion of pseudotranslation calls forth, on the other hand, is an original creative work masquerading as translation, one in which no language transference  takes place and no transla?tional relation exists. Since pseudotranlsation is devoted to intro?ducing new elements into the target culture, pseudotranslator adds elements to the pseudotranslation by which reader relates it to translation. Similarly, innovative translator considers acceptability in target culture and credibility of the target text. In this way, innovative translation acquires the attributes of pseudo?translation. The degree of innovation and how to differentiate genuine translation from pseudotransaltion have to do with subjectivity of the translation. When the translator is more aware of innovative translation, the traits of pseudotranslation are more identifiable. By extending and re-interpreting the notion of pseud?otranslation, this paper argues that in order to put an end to existing doubts about justifiability of innovative translation, it is necessary that we see it anew, as a special genre of translation which possesses characteristics similar to those of pseudotranslation.
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