Ongoing research about the materiality of translation. 2024-2025
 

"I am a prisoner of reality (of a language). The model imposes on me the forms of my intuition, the categories of my knowledge, my values, and shapes my actions and my sufferings. But through translation I can transcend my model and contemplate it from outside. The possibility of translation is my freedom. The limitation of the possibility of translation is my conditioning. In translation I am beyond several models, and can choose among them: I am free. But in translation I am inside a model (although larger), and can choose only between a limited number of models: I am determined."

Vilém Flussr, 1968. Da tradução, In: Cadrenos Brasileiros, X (5/79): 74-81, translated by Cláudia Santana Martins, 2015.