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Approches du désir et de ses rapports à la réalité

Désir vs réalité et traduction

Irina Mavrodin

Pages 6–7

Licence © 2006 the authors · CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The author applies the paradigm "wish vs reality" to a most complex field: that of translation. Cioran's paradoxical statement: "A translation is bad when it is clearer than the original version. This proves that it could not preserve ambiguity and that the translator has made choices: which is a crime" raises the unsolvable problem tormenting every good translator: the opposition between the translator's wish to propose a clear and univocal text and the author's wish to preserve a certain ambiguity which gives true value to his work.

Keywords —

wish · reality · reader · interpretation · literary translation
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Mavrodin, I. (2006). Désir vs réalité et traduction. Dialogos, 13, 6–7.

Mavrodin, Irina. “Désir vs réalité et traduction.” Dialogos, vol. 13, 2006, pp. 6–7.

Mavrodin, Irina. 2006. “Désir vs réalité et traduction.” Dialogos 13: 6–7.

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