Nachtigall oder Lerche: Übersetzen ohne Light-Bild

Abstract

This article addresses the question of the relationship between translation and its contexts (in the target language as in the source language). I will be interested in three scenes (in Shakespeare, Kraus and Benjamin) and will approach their joints—junctio, conjunctio and disjunctio—which will be quoted and translated. The shifting from one scene to another, guided by an undecidable song of the birds, will shed light on the problem common to translation and citation: the problem of justice.

Keywords

• translation
• quotation
• Walter Benjamin
• Karl Kraus
• Shakespeare