A given literary text is never wholly untranslatable. In the context of Russian literature, translation and translatability have played a vital role. In fact, according to Russian and translation studies scholar Brian James Baer, modern Russian poetry as we know it was born in a translation. Finally, reiterating Joseph Brodsky’s notion of translation, the blog stressed the importance of recognizing translation as an important literary activity, not a subsidiary art form. In a good discussion of literary translation and the significance of translation in Russian literature, it has been argued that literary untranslatability is not gospel truth.
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Is Literature Untranslatable