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Nate Eagle's avatar

I urge anyone who enjoyed this post who does not already know the essay "The Task of the Translator" by Walter Benjamin to take the time to check it out. It's short, freely available online, and directly addresses similar questions about what the real job of a translator is.

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lyrical brazil's avatar

Super interesting, I haven’t read this one and feel forewarned. The only thing I wonder about is the Maudes “dating themselves,” because shouldn’t 19th c literature sound dated? I don’t like reading translations that sound anachronistic, using today’s language to translate Tolstoy e.g.

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