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"The Scientific Conversation" by Etienne Klein

Today : What means ''to translate'' ?

The great reader and translator,

Valery Larbaud was surrounded by books

that were bound in a specific colour

depending on the original

language of these books

English novels were bound in blue,

Spanish in red, German novels in green

and so on and so forth

It was about showing that languages are not

neutral, they color the texts in a unique

and intense way that none of the artworks

is taken independently from its source

language. Therefore, of course, changes

in forms of gateways are possible, but

they are always delicate to the act of

translation. ''All the work of

translation'' written by Valery Larbaud,

is word weighing. In

one of the trays we narrate one after the

other the words of the author, and doing

so, we try in turns an

undetermined number of words

that belong to the native language

of the writer, waiting for the moment when

balance is found. End of quote.