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In:Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction
Edited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
[Benjamins Translation Library 110] 2014
► pp. 69–86

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Walter Benjamin revisited

A literary reading in Todd Hasak-Lowy’s short story “The Task of this Translator”

Published online: 28 January 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.110.05apo
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