Reading · Part 5

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The Morality of Translation

Every act of translation is, in some irreducible sense, an act of betrayal. The Italian aphorism traduttore, traditore - translator, traitor - captures with epigrammatic economy a truth that translators themselves have acknowledged, debated, and agonised over for centuries: that the passage from one language to…

  • What does the Italian aphorism 'traduttore, traditore' encapsulate according to the writer?
  • Why did Humboldt consider translation to be fundamentally impossible?

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