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“There can never be an absolutely final translation.”
Robert M. Grant

Walter Benjamin
“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Amara Lakhous
“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.”
Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Salman Rushdie
“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.”
Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

“Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".”
Richard O. Moore, Writing the Silences

year in books
Şevin
307 books | 13 friends

Tuna
309 books | 2 friends

irmiko
89 books | 3 friends

Göktürk
74 books | 2 friends

merve
1,894 books | 17 friends





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