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Jan 9, 2023 · In 1921, Walter Benjamin wrote his well-known essay about translation, “Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers”. Today, this text has become a classic reference in a broad spectrum of discussions within the fields of cultural and translation theory, often subsumed under the heading of “cultural translation”.
Benjamin's essay on translation is quite the catalog of metaphors and images. The relationship between original and translation is the undo-ing of a spell, the freeing of a spirit, he says, which is so much what I was hoping for as I reached for this landscape. Or, it is like the tangent, he says,
Jul 19, 2018 · The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman’s commentary on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Task of the Translator’. Chantal Wright’s translation includes an introduction which positions the text in relation to current developments in translation studies, and provides prefatory explanations before ...
May 19, 2014 · Benjamin’s famous concept of “pure language” invokes an amalgam of all the languages of the world, and it is precisely this aggregate language that is the medium in which the translator should work.
Its scope takes in the reception of ancient Greek and Latin works, the historical and contemporary translation of literary works from modern languages into English, and the far-reaching effects which the practice of translation has, over time, exerted on literature written in English.
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The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisiens. By Walter Benjamin. Book Readings in the Theory of Religion. Click here to navigate to parent product. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2010. Imprint Routledge. Pages 9. eBook ISBN 9781315475615.
