Transcript of the lecture by Alexandra Borisenko and Viktor Sonkin on the problems of untranslatability Recently, at the Peredelkino House of Creativity, famous translators and teachers of literary translation practice Alexandra Borisenko and Viktor Sonkin spoke about what linguistic phenomena are considered not amenable to translation into foreign languages, why this happens and whether it is true that adequate transfer of some stylistic features or everyday realities to another linguistic or

Fragment from "The Book of Passages" by Walter Benjamin The Book of Passages, Walter Benjamin's unfinished work, is an annotated anthology of the culture and everyday life of Paris in the mid-19th century, including, along with the author's texts, excerpts from literature, press and printed matter, grouped by topic and comprehensively reflecting the life of the French capital.