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The Translator’s Impossible Task: Variations on Walter Benjamin
- Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 13, Number 2, June 2015
- pp. 215-224
- 10.1353/pan.2015.0019
- Article
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Abstract
This is an attempt to elucidate Walter Benjamin’s enigmatic essay “The Translator’s Task,” followed by an analysis of two approaches to its meaning: the philological-historical, represented by Peter Szondi, and the deconstructionist, applied by Paul de Man and Barbara Johnson. In spite of the radical difference between the two, they are surprisingly shown to meet in their final assessment of Benjamin’s intended meaning.
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