Echoes Across Unfinished Tongues

Anne Carson treats translation as a bridge built from fragments, a careful reweaving of meaning, while José Emilio Pacheco sees it as a dialogue between cultures that never fully converge. Their imagined conversation explores the tension between fidelity and creativity, suggesting that each rendered word carries the residue of both languages. The exchange invites the reader to contemplate the beauty and loss inherent in every act of linguistic crossing.