Merryn Williams

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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. 58/December 7, 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/

MERRYN WILLIAMS, My Cousin

CONTENTS:

Translations of My Cousin by: Ionela Maria Adam, Iulia Anchidin, Cristina Florea, Teodora Georgescu, Andreea Hadambu, Rodica Ionas, Corina Iscru, Raluca-Ioana Manolescu, Violeta Mitu, Patricia Neculae, Cristine Niculae, Silvia Niculae, Steliana Palade, Reluta Paune, Florentina Yvonne Penciu, Laura Persoiu, Alina Petrescu, Ana–Maria Purec, Paula Sezonov, Ioana Stan, Teofana Trapcea, Ioana Tudor.

Translations from:

Merryn Williams

My Cousin

She came here-not to rest-to sweep the stairs and
empty chamber pots. The gilded chairs
still stand here, the enormous mirrors throw
my face back as they did hers, aeons ago.
Down these plush corridors she moved, her feet
not echoing - dusting, leaving all things neat.
Somewhere her midget room, a great way up
these stairs. Invisible beneath her cap
to Bournemouth's guests, but I now who she was; my flesh, my blood, thrown early from the nest.
A small skimped woman when she was alive,
all siblings lost, unmatched at forty-five.
No trace, not one. Still stands the Grand Hotel
but now she rests. Somewhere in Boumemouth still.

by:

+ Raluca-Ioana Manolescu

+ Florentina Yvonne Penciu

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

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