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

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

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

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

Walter Benjamin
Tasks, Language, Creation
Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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