The Europe of translation

摘要

Translating is an act of language, and every act of language implies an ethics of language. Thus, a poetics of translating cannot be simply a regionally specific, autonomous reflection on the nature of translation, or even exclusively on what we call literature. Instead, the poetics of translating shows that each act of translation reveals its own theory of language, and that language itself implies a continuum and an interaction with art, ethics and politics. Translating is the experimental laboratory for this process, the key terrain for a critique of received ideas about language.