【英译汉·诺奖诗歌·2020】《卡斯提尔》露易丝·格丽克

Castile

Louise Glück

卡斯提尔

作者:路易斯·格里克(2020年度诺奖诗人)

翻译:金沙文字


Orange blossoms blowing over Castile

children begging for coins.

卡斯提尔,橙花盛开。

天真孩儿,一群乞丐。

I met my love under an orange tree

or was it an acacia tree

or was he not my love?

我与情郎晤树下,

橙花幻作合欢花,

谁说不是他?

I read this, then I dreamed this:

can waking take back what happened to me?

Bells of San Miguel

ringing in the distance,

his hair in the shadows blond-white.

细回溯,一梦矣,

梦醒时分怎自己?

听远方,

圣钟响,

碧眼金发放光芒。

I dreamed this,

does that mean it didn't happen?

Does it have to happen in the world to be real?

我历之梦境,

世间没发生?

必须实际发生才算真?

I dreamed everything, the story

became my story:

我游太虚幻境,

幻境即我人生:

He lay beside me,

my hand grazed the skin of his shoulder.

我的郎君偎身旁,

酥手轻抚他肩膀。

Mid-day, then early evening:

in the distance, the sound of a train.

晌午过,夜幕临,

远方传来火车声。

But it was not the world:

in the world, a thing happens finally, absolutely,

the mind cannot reverse it.

此景不在人世间,

世间生灭皆必然,

凡人智力不可转。

Castile: nuns walking in pairs through the dark garden.

Outside the walls of the Holy Angels

children begging for coins.

卡斯提尔:

天使教堂圣庄严,

修女结伴过花园,

墙外乞儿争讨钱。

When I woke I was crying,

has that no reality?

一觉醒来长哭叹,

莫非所见皆虚幻!

I met my love under an orange tree:

I have forgotten

only the facts, not the inference—

there were children, somewhere, crying, begging for coins.

我与情郎晤树下,

我所遗忘皆梦花。

绝非主观凭臆断——

乞儿讨钱在哭喊。

I dreamed everything, I gave myself

completely and for all time.

我梦我之蝶,

我舍我一切——

永无歇。

And the train returned us

first to Madrid,

then to the Basque country.

火车载我往回转,

先回马德里,

再回巴乡里。

注:卡斯提尔:西班牙地名。

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瑞典斯德哥尔摩当地时间10月8日下午1点,瑞典文学院将2020年度诺贝尔文学奖颁给美国诗人露易丝·格丽克,“因为她那毋庸置疑的诗意声音具备朴素的美,让每一个个体的存在都具有普遍性。”

格丽克的诗长于对心理隐微之处的把握。早期作品具有很强的自传性,后来的作品则通过人神对质,以及对神话人物的心理分析,导向人的存在根本问题:爱、死亡、生命、毁灭。

金沙文字

2020.10.10

路易丝·伊莉莎白·格里克(Louise Elizabeth Gluck),美国女诗人。 1943年出生于纽约。她在两所大学短时期上过学,得过威廉姆斯学院的法学学位。2003年她在马萨诸塞州的威廉姆斯学院讲授一年级英语、诗歌写作和当代诗歌等课程。迄2003年为止,她已出版了9本诗集,其

中1992年出版的《野盏尾花》获得过1993年的普利策奖。

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