To translate, to interpret, to write

through a philosophical revision of concepts pertaining to the fields of hermeneutics and translation, this text brings to question the logic that rules the production of the contemporary essay. its central hypothesis posits that in our days the hypostasis of the essay is a translation from one language into that same language, and is divided into two sections. the former establishes a connection between translation and interpretation, while the latter focuses on the relation between interpreting an essay and producing one. the third basal connection explored in this text deals with translating and writing in the same language and serves as metadiscourse on the other two. this threefold pattern hinges in two directions, for the current essay is questioned in its form and its background, under a specular dynamics in which whatever is said can be refuted by the very format of the essay; of this essay.