The shadow writer, author: Carlos Batista

The act of translation is characterized by reverence and majesty comparable to the gift of language. For language alone is not sufficient. Its multiplicity meets the needs of each nation to express their purposes. The nature of necessity limits each language to a specific linguistic tribe. Language will only know dissemination and effectiveness if it is transcended into other linguistic frameworks through translation and retranslation. It is then enriched and revived as much as it hosts distant languages, to expand its vocabulary, structure, and system. This going to the other and inviting it to host is what ensures the preservation of the language's pulse, its continuous renewal, and the pumping of vital sap into its veins.