Citação de George Steiner para comentar

“I believe that ‘theories of translation’ are an arrogant misnomer. The concept of ‘theory’, entailing as it must that of crucial experiments and falsifications, is, as I have said, when invoked by the humanities, largely spurious. Its prestige in the current climate of humanistic.academic studies derives from an almost pitiable endeavor to ape the good fortune, the public status of the pure and applied sciences. The diagrams, the arrows with which ‘theoreticians’ of translation adorn their proposals are factitious. They can prove nothing.”

Steiner, Errata. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.