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[...]Far from being a marginal activity, translation has played a central role in shaping literature. Choosing to remember only certain works by eminent writers while overlooking the importance of their traslation activity skews the picture of their achievement and is historical distortion. If we were to rewrite literary history from the perspective of significance of translation in a literary system, rather than from the standard perspective of national cultural roots, then we would see a very different picture from the familiar one we have all been taught to accept. [...]