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Publication details [#5795]

Rendall, Steven. 1997. Notes on Zohn’s translation of Benjamin’s Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers. In Nouss, Alexis, ed. L'essai sur la traduction de Walter Benjamin: traductions critiques [Walter Benjamin's essay on translation: critical translations]. Special issue of Traduction Terminologie Rédaction (TTR) 10 (2): 191–206.

Publication type

Article in Special issue

Publication language

English

Keywords

problem-solving=problem | translation

Person as a subject

Benjamin, Walter

Title as subject

The Task of the Translator | Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers

Abstract

In 1968 Harry Zohn published a pioneering translation of "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers" that for many years was the only form in which Benjamin's famous essay was known to most readers in English. These notes examine certain problems raised by Zohn's translation.

Source : Abstract in journal