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“I would suggest that what the translator has to give up is the temptation to translate history by making sense of it, that is, by using an apologetic or apocalyptic discourse. What the translator fails to do is to erase the body, to erase the murder of the original.”
Shoshana Felman, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History

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