David Bellos Professions : Translator Born : 1945 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by David Bellos Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. David Bellos creative use brain The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same - that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition. David Bellos practice names two In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. David Bellos fake eye real Similar Authors Burton Watson translator Burton Raffel translator Ase-Marie Nesse translator Arthur Waley translator Denys Johnson-Davies translator Henry Boyd translator All Authors
