Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.


Ch. III (p. 104). - The Death of Tragedy (1961)


Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.