BERMAN OR THE END OF THE OPPOSITION PRACTICE-THEORY

This article deals with the theory of traduction of Antoine Berman, who is one of the most famous french theorists of translation. We tried in our work to show how has evolving his theory. He developped an original concept of criticism of translation" and a methodology to anchor the practice of the criticism. He demonstred how the work of translation is a critical process as well as a creative one. Berman's works are fondamuntal texts in translation studies, because Berman applied the notion of ethics and called for a translation that is nonethnocentric and stipulated that the creativity required by work of translation be focused on the recreation in the other language without being over-determinated by the personal poetics of the writer-translator. Berman achieved a rare combination of hermeneutic and stylistic analysis of commentary on the original and analysis of its translations, giving the reader access both to the language of the original to the way in which poetry and thought are deployed and to the actual work of translation". We can read Berman's works like they was divided into two separate but interlinked parts, each focused on one element of the ethics of translation: theory (reflection) and practice (experience).