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WEHR, Elke. Traducir: la tarea infinita o cómo todo tiene que cambiar para que todo quede igual. Acta poét [online]. 2004, vol.25, n.1, pp.107-115. ISSN 2448-735X.

Based on the author's experience as a translator from the French, Italian and Spanish into the German language, this essay explores, from a rather personal point of view, the idea of translation as a pervasive activity: as a way of "reading" what has been lived or heard, as interpretation or as a way of writing someone else's experience, and also as travel and exchange. The translator is compared to the actor, to the imitator of voices and to the ilusionist who, in addition to being an artist of disappearance, adds one more level to the fiction with which he already works. Some questions are also posed that suggest an ethics of translation: Is it possible - or even legitimate- to appropriate what is foreign, to make it ours? Should we keep what is foreign and strain our mother tongue so that she can receive it?.

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