Translation as revelation
If translating from one language into another is, as for Giacomo Leopardi, being "in the shadow of a a language" due to the scale of the task and the irreducibility of one scriptural Lebenswelt to another, then the duty of a translator is not so much to create as to reveal. Reveal other worlds, disclose unsuspected integuments without breaking them, sch…
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