"However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers."
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As quoted in "From Bach to Kafka, or... about temptation - An interview by Emil Bassat" in Sofia News (30 May 1984).
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Ventseslav Konstantinov
Ventseslav Konstantinov (Bulgarian: Венцеслав Константинов) (14 September 1940 – April 22, 2019) was a Bulgarian essayist and translator of German and English literature.
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