Vous l’avez peut-être lu sur ce site, je suis chimiste de formation. On pourrait croire qu’il n’y a aucun lien entre la chimie et la traduction… et pourtant !
L’autre jour, je suis tombée sur la très belle citation suivante, de la traductrice américaine Margaret Sayers Peden :
« I like to think of the original work as an ice cube. During the process of translation the Cube is melted. While in its liquid state, every molecule changes place; none remains in its original relationship to the others. Then begins the process of forming the work in a second language. Molecules escape, new molecules are poured in to fill in the spaces, but the lines of molding and mending are virtually invisible. The work exists in a second language as a new ice cube- different, but to all appearances the same. »
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