Ventseslav Konstantinov quotes
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“It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.”
-- Ventseslav KonstantinovSource : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.
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“However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.”
-- Ventseslav KonstantinovSource : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.
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“The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.”
-- Ventseslav KonstantinovSource : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.
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“The translator constantly learns new things about himself.”
-- Ventseslav KonstantinovSource : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.”
Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 74), 1968.
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“The translator constantly learns new things about himself.”
Source : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.
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