DÉSIR VS RÉALITÉ ET TRADUCTION
Desire vs Reality and Translation

Summary/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 isa crime” raises the unsolvable problem tormenting every good translator: the opposition betweenthe translator’s wish to propose a clear and univocal text and the author’s wish to preserve acertain ambiguity which gives true value to his work.

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