Abstract
Alberto Manguel, when comparing translations of a certain text into different languages, comes to the conclusion that the text changes its identity from one language to another, but, despite of that, remains the same. But how can the text remain the same in the face of these ever-changing identities? Or, what allows us to say that translations of the same text are one text? Manguel, who compares the text to a person and, quoting an ancient philosophical puzzle, asks himself, then, whether a person who has had each part of his body replaced by artificial organs and limbs remains the same person, that is, “in which of our members does our identity lie: In what element of a poem does the poem reside?”.
Keywords
Literature; Translation; Frankenstein; Manipulation; Translator