Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator"

by Douglas Robinson

This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des bersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin's essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a frustratingly cryptic work that cries out for commentary. Almost every one of the claims he makes in it seems wildly counterintuitive, because he articulates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032161396
• ISBN13: 9781032161396
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"