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.


Selected Writings: 1913-1926 (ed. Harvard University Press, 1996) - ISBN: 9780674945852

Walter Benjamin Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...