Background
Antoine Berman was born in the small town of Argenton-sur-Creuse, near Limoges, to a Polish-Jewish father and a French-Yugoslav mother.
linguist literary critic philosopher translator writer
Antoine Berman was born in the small town of Argenton-sur-Creuse, near Limoges, to a Polish-Jewish father and a French-Yugoslav mother.
Berman attended the Lycée Montmorency. Later he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he met his wife Isabelle.
After living hidden during the Second World War, the family established near Paris. In 1968 they moved to Argentina, where they remained 5 years. Back in Paris he led a rich academic life.
He died in 1991, at the age of only forty-nine, writing his last book in bed.
Berman was active in philosophical and literary circles, nevertheless he has been influential in translatology, especially in translation criticism. He claimed that there may be many different methods for translation criticism as there are many translation theories.
Therefore he entitled a model of his own as an analytical path, which can be modulated according to the specific objectives of each analyst and adapted to all standardized text types.