Traduttore t(r)uffatore: ponti, conflitti, traduzione e libertà.

Starting from some recent positions of postcolonial criticism on translation, the author reflects on the idea of 'bridge', often associated with that of translation, and on its fragility when compared with the idea of 'conflict' that dominates some of the most interesting positions of contemporary translactology. If translation is a general metaphor for language and the possibility of inter-human understanding tout court, the author argues that the best translators (such as the Russian Evgenij Solonovich) are well aware that such understanding always requires some degree of fraud, and that in this possibility of free will on the part of translators is generally reflected the freedom of expression of human beings.