Almost Untranslatable

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Julien Gracq, quoted by Jérôme Garcin, “Un balcon en Anjou”, Le Nouvel observateur, 24 January 2002:

Mon souhait, irréalisable, aurait été que mes livres tiennent tellement à la langue qu’ils en soient pratiquement intraduisibles.

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