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RT @nick_routledge: @victoriamoul George Steiner's treatment spans several different books and registers, but his major contribution is After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. It's not narrowly about poetry but poetic translation is treated as the limit case throughout. His polymathic verve is luminous.

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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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