The Synaesthetic Poetics of Reading and Translation: Barthes – Nabokov – Robinson
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Zuzanna Kozłowska
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Engagement with literature, like all forms of contact, always lies somewhere between the pleasurable and the unpleasant. Reading and translating are activities which engage the body doing the experiencing – whether somatic, sensual or sexual.
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