<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Starting from Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the work of Marcel Proust, we intend to go back to the way they allow us to think the relations between literature and translation, the “life connections” between them. We aim to speculate more specifically on the productive dimension of aging and oblivion taken as critical setbacks, that are natural to every work - original or translation-, and that predestine, necessarily and inexorably, within the “internal forest” of each of the languages involved and the border between them, to incompleteness and “continued life”.</p></abstract>

Starting from Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the work of Marcel Proust, we intend to go back to the way they allow us to think the relations between literature and translation, the “life connections” between them. We aim to speculate more specifically on the productive dimension of aging and oblivion taken as critical setbacks, that are natural to every work - original or translation-, and that predestine, necessarily and inexorably, within the “internal forest” of each of the languages involved and the border between them, to incompleteness and “continued life”.

Vieillissement et oubli : contretemps de la (bonne) traduction (avec Walter Benjamin e Marcel Proust)

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Starting from Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the work of Marcel Proust, we intend to go back to the way they allow us to think the relations between...

Vieillissement et oubli : contretemps de la (bonne) traduction (avec Walter Benjamin e Marcel Proust)

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 45 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2018-0005

Keywords
Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, literary translation, aging, oblivion

© 2018 Marcelo Jacques De Moraes, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Vieillissement et oubli : contretemps de la (bonne) traduction (avec Walter Benjamin e Marcel Proust)

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 45 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2018-0005

KeywordsWalter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, literary translation, aging, oblivion

© 2018 Marcelo Jacques De Moraes, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, literary translation, aging, oblivion