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Nancy Huston
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The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They’re also worldviews – and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable...
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The truth is that all of us have multiple identities – if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.
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Literature allows us to cross the borders – as imaginary as they are indispensable – which circumscribe and define our selves. Reading, we allow other people to enter us – and if we make room for them so willingly, it’s because we know them already. The novel celebrates our miraculous capacity to recognize others in ourselves, and ourselves in others.
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Là-bas, les gens sont toujours impressionnés quand ils apprennent que je vis à Paris et ça me gêne ; ils n'imaginent pas qu'ici comme partout il y a de la routine, de la pluie, des embêtements et des embouteillages ; que la vie au jour le jour n'est pas une succession ininterrompue d'éblouissements ; je n'ai envie ni de les détromper ni de faire l'objet de leur admiration envieuse, alors je souris d'un air emprunté et je change de sujet...
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Les langues ne sont pas seulement des langues : ce sont aussi des world views, c’est à dire des façons de voir et de comprendre le monde. Il y a de l’intraduisible là-dedans... et si vous avez plus d’une world view... vous n’en avez, d’une certaine façon, aucune.
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The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...
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Literature allows us to cross the borders -- as imaginary as they are indispensable -- which circumscribe and define our selves. Reading, we allow other people to enter us -- and if we make room for them so willingly, it's because we know them already. The novel celebrates our miraculous capacity to recognize others in ourselves, and ourselves in others.
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