Posted at 23 Dec, 08:16h in Quotes by admin 0 Comments 79 Likes Share Translation is the most intimate act of reading. I surrender to the text when I translate. — Gayatri Spivak
Posted at 06 Oct, 12:53h in Quotes by admin 0 Comments 5 Likes Share Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another. — Paul Auster
Posted at 04 Oct, 15:57h in Quotes by admin 0 Comments 140 Likes Share The translator should serve only to the writer and the writer’s truth. The translator should identify with the writer as much as possible. — Zoran Paunović
Posted at 04 Oct, 12:59h in Quotes by admin 0 Comments 30 Likes Share Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Günter Grass
Posted at 03 Oct, 10:03h in Quotes by admin 0 Comments 0 Likes Share 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. — Walter Benjamin