Posts Tagged ‘octavio paz’

Language, History, and Politics

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

When is a language really a language, and not just a set of dialects?  That is a difficult question to answer, and the Spanish language is a perfect case in point.  Though most people in non-Spanish speaking cultures are unaware of it, this Romance language has historically been plagued by infighting and antagonisms which arose [...]

Contemporary Theories on Translation: Octavio Paz

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Octavio Paz asserts that language is, above all, translation (translation and literature are synonyms). Translation is always a literary operation, since it is an artistic or scientific work as it includes a “transformation” of the original that is literary in the sense that it uses literary resources (in essence, metonymy and metaphor). Translations are a [...]

 

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