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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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CTITC

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

 

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 TRANSLATION CAFÉ 


 

MTTLC
MA Programme for the

TRANSLATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY TEXT

Review of Contemporary Texts in Translation and E-Learning

 

 

 

HILARY ELFICK

The years of the war

 

I sit in my pram in the Anderson
beyond the chicken run and rows of beans
and sing in the dark to the whistles that puff
and thud into the sod roof.

Only a splinter of window, newly cleaned
but it rips through the plywood door
through his new suit to the back of the wardrobe.
Good thing he wasn’t wearing it she says.

He’s out in Sutton Park with a wooden rifle,
while my mother sits knitting
a long scarf, dark blue and maroon
with fringed neat knots I help to tie.

We hide in our pyjamas in the cupboard
under the stairs because there’s no time
and my brother finds a miracle of raisins
that we chew in the firework dark.

On the winding walk to school
we fight the kids from the other place
filling our Mickey Mouse gasmasks with mud
and slinging them like David before Goliath.

We pass a field every day
where men in uniform are working
and the sign says ‘Polish POW’ so that we think
our shoes are cleaned with the field’s grain.

And though my father’s uniform scratches the back of my knees
when he cuts my hair with kitchen scissors
the buttons on his sleeves are lions and crowns
and unicorns made of gold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hilary Elfick
 

Anii de razboi

Stau in carucior la Anderson
dincolo de cotetul puilor si vrejurile de fasole,
cant in intuneric vuietului ce pufaie
si loveste acoperisul de tarana.

Doar un ciob de fereastra, proaspat curatat,
sfasie* usa de lemn Metafora este
dezvaluind costumul sau nou din capatul dulapului.
Bine ca nu il purta, spuse ea.

El e in Sutton Park cu o pusca de lemn,
in timp ce mama impleteste
un sal lung, cu albastru inchis si maro
tivit cu franjuri ordonate pe care o ajut sa le lege.

Ne ascundem pijamalele in dulapul
de sub scari, fiindca-i tarziu
iar fratele meu descopera niste stafide miraculoase
pe care le mestecam in intunericul plin de scantei
*.

Pe drumul serpuit catre scoala
ne luptam cu copii din cealalta tabara,
ne umplem de noroi mastile noastre de Mikey Mouse
si le aruncam orecum David in fata lui Goliat.

Traversam zilnic un camp
unde lucreaza oameni in uniforme,
pe semn scrie : ‘Prizonier Polonezi* si noi ne gandim
ca pantofii ne sunt curatati de fibrele campului.

Desi uniforma tatei imi zgarie pulpa
cand imi tunde parul cu foarfeca de bucatarie
butonii hainei sale sunt lei, coroane
si inorogi de aur.

 

*“rip” in the original text (to chop wood)- I chose “sfasie” as a metaphor standing both for this action of chopping and for the idea of unveiling something by tearing it with a sort of “cruelty”.
*By associating « niste stafide miraculoase » ( a miracle of raisins) with « intunericul plin de scantei »(the firework dark), I tried to build up an aura of mystery meant to envelop the atmosphere created in this stanza. The lexical association »stafide miraculoase » made think of Jack’s miraculous beans and of the atmosphere that the story creates. We can also notice that at the beginning, the poem mentions some « row of beans. »
*“Polish Pow” in the original text- “pow” is an abbreviation from ‘prisoner of war’

 

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