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  • There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

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    Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

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    Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

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Walter Benjamin

  • Born: July 15, 1892
  • Died: September 26, 1940
  • Occupation: Literary critic
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