The Task of the Translator

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gptkbp:instanceOf essay
gptkbp:author gptkb:Walter_Benjamin
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Task of the Translator
gptkbp:influenced literary criticism
translation studies
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Charles_Baudelaire
gptkb:German_Romanticism
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:notableIdea the concept of 'pure language'
gptkbp:notableQuote 'Translation is a mode.'
'The task of the translator consists in finding that intended effect upon the language into which he is translating which produces in it the echo of the original.'
gptkbp:originalTitle Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers
gptkbp:publicationYear 1923
gptkbp:publishedIn introduction to Benjamin's translation of Baudelaire's 'Tableaux Parisiens'
gptkbp:subject philosophy of language
translator
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:The_Task_of_the_Translator
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Walter_Benjamin:_Illuminations_(1968,_English_translation)
gptkb:Walter_Abraham_Benjamin
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7