Approach to the relationship between Jacques Derrida's and Walter Benjamin's thoughts on translation. Reading of the essay "Towers of Babel", in which Derrida, in order to deconstruct a traditional theory of translation as the convey of meaning, comments on Benjamin's famous essay "The Task of the Translator". Finally, an interpretation of the philosophical issue of friendship, having as a starting point Derrida's relation to the thoughts of Benjamin, Heidegger and Gadamer, among others.
Derrida; Benjamin; translation; friendship