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Translation Criticism: The Potentials and Limitations : Categories and Criteria for Translation Quality Assessment

by Katharina Reiss

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Jun 16, 2015 05:48PM

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“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

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“I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which meet and part,
and I have two languages.
I forget which of them I dream in.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

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“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

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“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

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“While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found.”
― Roberto Bolano(Literature+Illness=Illness)

tags: abyss, bolano, books, literature-and-illness, sex, travel

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