Antoine Berman
Antoine Berman (French: [bɛʁman]; 24 June 1942 – 1991) was a French translator, philosopher, historian and theorist of translation.
Life
Antoine Berman was born in the small town of Argenton-sur-Creuse, near Limoges, to a Polish-Jewish father and a French-Yugoslav mother. After living hidden during the Second World War, the family established near Paris. Berman attended the Lycée Montmorency. Later he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he met his wife Isabelle. In 1968 they moved to Argentina, where they remained 5 years. Back in Paris he led a rich academic life. He died in 1991, at the age of only forty-nine, writing his last book in bed.
Work
Antoine Berman's "trials of the foreign", which originates from German Romanticism (especially Friedrich Schleiermacher), tries to show the "deforming tendencies" inherent in the act of translation.
Berman's 'twelve deforming tendencies' in translation were:
Podcasts:
