This text has at its origins in a quotation of Walter Benjamin: "translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language, the reverberation of the work in the alien one" ("The Task of the Translator" [1923], in Illuminations (1968)). Around the time I...