Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.
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Alvaro Enrigue
These are some quotes by American author Alvaro Enrigue Author, who was born on August 6, 1969.
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