Translation as a Practice of Acceptance - Asymptote
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Translation as a Practice of Acceptance - Asymptote
…believing in the naturalness of your mother tongue shows a lack of serious engagement with language and belies the entire premise of modern literature. This is why I believe that existing outside of one's mother tongue is not exceptional, but simply an extreme version of the normal state of things.
Yoko Tawada • Exophony
Translation is traditionally understood as between languages — in The Philosophy of Translation , Damion Searls traces translation back to its Latin root translatio , meaning “to carry across.” The Renaissance later introduced traductio , or traduction , shifting the emphasis from simple transport to a holistic transformation — one that preserves... See more
Sense to Sense
When I translate poetry, I have to make the poet whose work I am translating into a character I hope to embody, a character that may not actually exist in English or to English-only readers.