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Berman, Antoine. 2012. Translation and the trials of the foreign. In Venuti, Lawrence. The Translation Studies Reader. London: Routledge. pp. 240–253.

Publication type

Chapter in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

analysis | text linguistics | translation

Edition info

Translated by Lawrence Venuti

Translation of

Berman, Antoine. 1985. La traduction comme épreuve de l'étranger [Translation and the trials of the foreign]. Texte 4 : 67–81.

Abstract

For Berman, every translation faces the trial of the foreign (l’épreuve de l’etranger), and textual analysis can gauge the degree to which the translating language admits into its own structures the source text. In this essay, he describes in detail the deforming tendencies in translation, which are largely unconscious.

Source : Based on editor’s introductory essay