“Every translator’s origin story seems to involve a measure of serendipity, and mine is no exception.”
― Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
― Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
“Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.”
― Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso
― Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso
“It might be a burden to you for me to tell you this, but I think Sayoko always liked you best of all.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
“We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.”
― Letters to a Young Novelist
― Letters to a Young Novelist
“Translation is like any art: in the best of cases, it helps shed light on ourselves, on those hidden corners of ourselves that we barely knew existed, and whose discovery has enriched us. It exposes us to minds and voices able to awaken in us a particular sense of delight, an irreplaceable thrill of discovery that is avail- able nowhere else. The ability of these minds and voices to do this is unique, not because they come from a foreign land—or at least, not solely because of it—but because they are sui generis, as exceptional in their own culture as they appear in ours.”
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