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Lidia Vianu - Director of CTITC (CENTRE FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT), Bucharest University, Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the English Department of Bucharest University, Member of the Writers’ Union, Romania.

 

 
 
 
 
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CENTRE FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT
CENTRUL PENTRU TRADUCEREA SI INTERPRETAREA TEXTULUI CONTEMPORAN

 

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CTITC
CENTER FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT

MTTLC
MA Programme for the TRANSLATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY TEXT

 

TRANSLATION
CAFÉ



Review of Contemporary Texts in Translation and E-Learning


                                                                            

        Nr. 17/October 15, 2007




Director: LIDIA VIANU

© CTITC
    MTTLC

 

 

ISSN 1842 – 9149

Issue Editor: ANDREEA DIACONU and VERONICA BALA

These translations are an online seminar of literary translation, part
of Lidia Vianu’s course [Guide to Contemporary Literature and Its Translation],
and a session of E-Learning in the MA Programme for the Translation of the
Contemporary Literary Text, directed by Lidia Vianu.


The texts have also been discussed in translation group at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translationcafe/  

 

CONTENTS:

 

George Szirtes

 
Translations of Body Songs by: Alina Barbu, Andreea Diaconu, Roxana Mandrican, Stefania Tarcomnicu, Eliza Ghitulescu, Oana Teodoroiu, Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu, Mihaela Guzu, Liviu Martinescu, Monica Manolachi, Ana-Maria Purec, Florentina Rahira Tinte, Valentina-Monica Barba, Corina Chelmus, Cristina Nistor, Gabriela Burcea, Ramona Zamfirescu.

 

 

Translations from:


George Szirtes - Body Songs


1.Back

Slipping his hand down her back he felt her heat,
As creaturely as his own but far better. Her head
Was cool to the touch. Where did they meet,
These two conditions? What was mid-point here?
It was where the nature of creatureliness resided,
Half way between acute desire and fear.

2.Skull

You feel the bones of the face. It is like weeping.
Do animals weep? She seemed to be buoyed
On an enormous reservoir of tears. Her sleeping
Contained time in a cupping of hands,
A time that was to be lamented but enjoyed
In environments of working cells and glands.

3.Leg

Your leg, it seems nothing. Your eyes count
For little. Your organs are obscure, your limbs
Anonymous. Your bodily fluids don’t amount
To a hill of beans, but you are lost in awe
Of the poor rags that live in your dreams
Where desire is king and obeys no law.

4.Neck

The delicate architecture of the neck demands
Study. One needs a certain scholarly devotion
To appreciate its fragility refined into bands
Of necklace, light, and shadow. The very notion
Of its existence has a faintly oriental
Exotic flavour that is not merely accidental.

5.Skin

Skin is enough to send a rhyme-scheme skew-whiff.
Could one but fix a voltmeter to the small bones
Of the wrist it would read off the scale. It is as if
There were convulsions in the circuit. The soles
Of the feet are mother-boards for the stones
We must rush across as if they were hot coals.

6.Heart

What is it burns us up? Let me feel your temple.
Is it your heart, my small and wonderful source
Of delight? My own organ is a poor example
Of the organ maker’s art. My chest wheezes
With its burden, my blood stutters along its course,
My genes whisper lamentable inherited diseases.

7.Aging

The dynamics of aging: a gust of wind
On the surface of the pond. What creatures
Live down there? Deep down perhaps, blind
Animalculae are gathering beneath a rock
Among flamboyant fish with macabre features
Registering various states of shock.

8.Waist

Slenderest. The point at which you break
Into two is where I most like to hold
You together. It is there I feel the ache
Of your otherness, before you expand
Above and below into that blithe controlled
Delight that makes my own flesh stretch and stand.

9.Belly

The dome of the world. Its peculiar swelling
Presents a purely lascivious curve
At tension with itself, smelling
Vaguely of perfume and earth. It is
The last of the good times, the reserve
Of the well fed once gorged on vanities.

10.Hand

Almost another independent being
Stuck to your wrist. I hold it as it grows
Flowers and closes on whatever it’s carrying.
I have wandered down its alleyways
From which everything else follows
That finger points to and palm weighs.

 

 

by:

 

Alina Barbu

Cantare trupului

 

Andreea Diaconu

Cantecele trupului

 

Roxana Mandrican

Cantare Trupului

 

Stefania Tarcomnicu

Cantecele trupului

 

Eliza Ghitulescu

Cantece trupesti

 

Oana Teodoroiu

Cantecele trupului

 

Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu

Cantarile trupului

 

Mihaela Guzu

Cantece despre corp

 

Liviu Martinescu

Imnele trupului

 

Monica Manolachi

Cantecele corpului

 

Ana-Maria Purec

Cantecele trupului

 

Florentina Rahira Tinte

Cantecele trupului

 

Valentina-Monica Barba

Cantarea trupului

 

Corina Chelmus

Cantecele trupului

 

Cristina Nistor

Cinturile trupului

 

Gabriela Burcea

Cantecele trupului

 

 Ramona Zamfirescu

Cantecul trupului

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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