Maggie Sawkins

CTITC

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

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TRANSLATION CAFÉ

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. 55/December 4, 2008

Director: LIDIA VIANU

© CTITC

MTTLC

ISSN 1842 – 9149

Issue Editor: LAVINIA ZAINEA

Tehnical Editor: CARMEN DUMITRU

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/

MAGGIE SAWKINS, A Pair of Small Ears

CONTENTS:

Translations of A Pair of Small Ears by: Corina Chelmus, George Cojocaru, Oana Teodora Ionescu, Gabriela Moldovan, Ruxandra Mindrican, Dana Nicorici, Dorina Palade, Florentina Penciu, Eliza Pintilie, Elena Daniela Radu, Florentina Rahira-Tinte, Stefania Tarcomnicu, Oana Teodoroiu, Florin Vasile, Hilda Vekony, Veronica Stoianovici, Ramona Zamfirescu.

Young writer in residence: LAVINIA ZAINEA

Translations from:

Maggie Sawkins

A Pair of Small Ears

I have come to translate the silence.
I’ve bought paper and pencils
and a pair of small ears.

I ask you
not to disturb me
until the task is done.

First I will unwrap the ears
and place them face up
on the floor.

You will observe their strangeness
these tiny shallows
these bridges of bone.

They are waiting for the sound
of no sound—
nothing is permitted

not even the intermittent
buzz of a fly nor the tick of a wall.

You must soften your breath
learn patience—
shuffle along any vagrant thought.

Soon the ears will begin
to quiver—gently they will
pick up the pencils at their side.

Listen closely—
the word is about to be
written.

by:

+ Corina Chelmus

+ George Cojocaru

+ Oana Teodora Ionescu

+ Florentina Yvonne Penciu

+ Eliza Pintilie

+ Elena Daniela Radu

+ Florentina Rahira-Tinte

+ Stefania Ileana Tarcomnicu

+ Oana Teodoroiu

+ Florin Vasile

+ Hilda Vekony

+ Veronica Stoianovici

+ Ramona Zamfirescu

+ Young writer in residence:

Lavinia Zainea - Watching Beckett

LICENTA LUCRARI DE DIPLOMA DOCTORATE TRANSLATION CAFÉ THE JOI JOY GRUP DE DISCUTII Translation in high school CONTACT

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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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