Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@moshik_temkin An exemplary academic, bravely pushing beyond received limits, assuming the boundary transgressions which change history. Steiner called it the honest treason of the comparatist, the translator; a persistent infidelity to any one tradition, culture or community of recognition.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jul 2021

@thebafflermag Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.”

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