Walter Benjamin Quote

Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special mission of watching over the maturing process of the original language and the birth pangs of its own.


The Task of the Translator (1923), translated by Harry Zohn


Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special ...

Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special ...

Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special ...

Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special ...