Dostoevsky, Heraclitus, Dante, Virgil, Homer, Cervantes, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Hölderlin, and scores of other poets and writers who have marked me forever – I, an American, whose only foreign language is French – have all been revealed to me, read by me, digested by me, in translation. Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.


- Paul Auster

Source : Avant-propos de « To Be Translated or Not to Be: PEN/IRL Report on the International Situation of Literary Translation », édité par Esther Allen, disponible à l’adresse suivante : www.centerforliterarytranslation.org.

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