Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal
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John Berger
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John Berger currently has 56 indexed quotes and 10 linked works on QuoteMust. This page is the canonical destination for that author archive.
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Another Way of Telling
Confabulations
Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
Keeping a Rendezvous
Once In Europa
Portraits: John Berger on Artists
Ways of Seeing
Why Look at Animals?
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