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Holderlin as Translator: The Perils of Interpretation.(poet Friedrich Holderlin)(Critical Essay)
From: The Germanic Review
Date: 20010622
Author:BERNOFSKY, SUSAN
The fact that the great poet Friedrich Holderlin was also a translator might have escaped late-twentieth-century notice altogether if it were not for a few sentences near the end of Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Task of the Translator." Singling out Holderlin's translations for praise, Benjamin pronounces them "Urbilder ihrer Form" and describes them in terms he otherwise reserves only for that holiest of holy texts: the interlinear translation of the Bible. The extreme literalness of Holderlin's translations of Pindar and Sophocles--what made them attractive to ...
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