Fitzgerald Translation

Famous quotes containing the words fitzgerald and/or translation:

    What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)