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Zvonko Maković

Američki Prijatelj

  • 1 Porgy & Bess Band | Translations: deenfrmkpl
  • 2 Američki Prijatelj | Translations: deen
  • 3 Tragovi | Translations: deen
  • 4 Vježbe | Translations: deenfrltnlpl
  • 5 Ime | Translations: deenfr
  • 6 Pismo | Translations: deen
  • 7 Mimo | Translations: deen
  • 8 Otisak olovke | Translations: deenmk
  • 9 Infinitiv | Translations: deenfrmknl
  • 10 Poslije | Translations: deenfrmknl
  • 11 Jesam li išta tražio | Translations: enmk
Language: croatian
Translations: german (Amerikanischer Freund), english (American friend)
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Američki Prijatelj

Sve nastojim zabilježiti.
Kaže: i pokrete želim zabilježiti.
I tragove. I glasove kako ne bi
izvjetrili. Onda polako otvaram
svoje bilježnice, svoje knjige polako
otvaram i ne moram se ničemu čuditi.
Otupjeli su mi osjećaji.
Kajem se i tražim sukrivca za ove
nedaće. Ove glupe natikače nabavila
sam prošle jeseni. Bilo je to već zapisano,
a gospođa koja je pogledala na sat,
zadigavši rukav ogrtača,
jednom je rekla rečenicu
«ove glupe natikače...»
zabacivši kosu s čela i pri tom mislila
s kojom je lakoćom Brenda Lee koračala
na svojim visokim potpeticama što
su pojačavale svaki mišić njezinih
listova, njezinih bedara...
I Brenda Lee, pomislio je,
podizala je visoko ruku kako bi joj
grudi u profilu dominirale kadrom.


Netko je posrnuo prelazeći cestu
i tramvaj je počeo kočiti.
Netko je, jutros, kupio novine
i s osjećajem gađenja pročitao
imena umrlih.
Bezimena lica nalaze se zaštićena
staklom tramvajskog prozora
i njihovi se pokreti doimaju nestvarnima.
Njihovi izrazi govore o upravo nedokučivom.
Nalazio je imena porazbacana,
ali sasvim proizvoljno,
na stranicama džepnog adresara.
Kada je to pokušao dovesti u red,
netko je upravo kriknuo i taj je krik
pripisao prvom imenu na koje je naišao.
Dotičnog znanca zamišljao je kao samoubojicu
koji skače s mosta.
Izbrisao sam tvoje ime iz adresara,
rekao je i na licu mu je titrao
ispitivački osmijeh.
Izbrisao sam tvoje ime,
ponovio je pred ogledalom.
Nastojim sve zabilježeno i zapamtiti,
kaže, i život mi se polako,
ali tako sistematično pretvara u literaturu.
Pogleda na ručni sat Williams
te zapiše vrijeme. Zatim se približi
klaviru, izvadi Camel cigaretu
bez filtera, upali je benzinskim
upaljačem marke Ronson iz 1934.
i hrapavim glasom izgovori
«Sviraj to iznova, Sam!»

© Zvonko Maković
From: Strah

Translations:

Language: german

Amerikanischer Freund

Alles versuche ich aufzuschreiben.
Er sagt: auch die Bewegungen möchte ich festhalten.
Und die Spuren. Und die Stimmen, damit sie sich nicht
verflüchtigen. Langsam öffne ich
meine Aufzeichnungen, meine Bücher, langsam:
ich wundere mich über nichts mehr.
Meine Gefühle sind abgestumpft.
Das bedaure ich sehr, und such für dieses Unglück
einen Mitschuldigen. Diese albernen  Latschen
habe ich letzten Herbst gekauft
. Das steht schon da,
denn die Dame, die auf die Uhr gesehen hat,
den Ärmel des Morgenmantels hochkrempelnd,
sagte eines Tages den Satz
„diese albernen Latschen ...“,
streichte sich die Haare aus der Stirn und dachte sich dabei,  
mit welcher Leichtigkeit Brenda Lee schritt,
auf ihren hohen Absätzen, die
jeden Muskel ihrer
Waden, ihrer Oberschenkel verstärkten ...
Und Brenda Lee, denkt er,
hob die Hand weit in die Höhe, damit ihre
Brüste im Profil den Bildausschnitt dominieren.

Jemand strauchelte beim Überqueren der Straße,
und die Straßenbahn begann zu bremsen.
Jemand kaufte am Morgen die Zeitung
und las mit einem Gefühl von Ekel  
die Namen der Verstorbenen.
Namenlose Gesichter,  geschützt
vom Glas der Straßenbahnfensterscheiben,
ihre Bewegungen erscheinen unwirklich.
Der Ausdruck ihrer Gesichter spricht vom eigentlich Unfassbaren.
Er stößt auf Namen, die auf den Seiten
seines Taschen-Adressbuches überall verteilt stehen,
vollkommen beliebig.  
Als er versucht, sie zu ordnen,
schreit gerade jemand auf, und diesen Aufschrei
schreibt er dem ersten Namen zu auf den er gestoßen ist.
Den betreffenden Bekannten stellt er sich
als Selbstmörder vor, der von der Brücke springt.
Ich habe deinen Namen aus dem Adressbuch gelöscht,
sagt er, und auf seinem Gesicht flackert
ein prüfendes Lächeln.
Ich habe deinen Namen gelöscht,
wiederholt er vor dem Spiegel.
Ich bemühe mich, alles Geschriebene auch zu behalten,
sagt er, und mein Leben verwandelt sich langsam,
aber systematisch in Literatur.
Er schaut auf die Williams-Armbanduhr
und schreibt die Zeit auf. Dann geht er
zum Klavier, holt eine Camel-Zigarette
ohne Filter heraus, zündet sie an,
mit einem Gasfeuerzeug der Marke Ronson von 1934.
Und sagt mit rauer Stimme
„Spiel´s  noch einmal, Sam!“

Übersetzt von Edina Picco, Sanin Hasibovic und Dieter M. Gräf
Language: english

American friend

I try to put everything down.
Also: I want to put down motions as well.
And footprints. Then I slowly open
my notebooks, and my books, I open them
slowly too, and am not surprised by anything.
My senses have become dull.
I'm regretful and seek the accessory
to these troubles. I got these stupid sandals
this past fall. That was already put down,
and a lady who looked at her watch,
lifting up her raincoat sleeve,
uttered the sentence,
"I got these stupid sandals..."
removing her hair from her forehead,
thinking also of the ease Brenda Lee
exhibited striding on her high heels
that emphasized every muscle
of her calves, her thighs...
Also, Brenda Lee, he recalled,
used to raise her arm up high to have
her breasts dominate the screen.

Someone stumbled crossing the street
and the streetcar driver slammed the brakes.
This morning someone bought newspapers
and feeling disgusted read
the names in obituaries.
The streetcar window protects
nameless faces,
their motions seem unreal.
Their expression speaks of the just unreachable.
He would find names
scattered unsystematically
in the pages of his pocket address-book.
When he tried to set them in order,
someone screamed and he attributed
that scream to the first name he came across.
He imagined the acquaintance to be someone
who committed suicide jumping off the bridge.
I erased you name,
he said, and the inquisitve smile
flickered across his face.
I erased your name,
he repeated in front of the mirror.
I try to put down and memorize everything,
he says, and my life is slowly
but systematically turning into literature.
He glances at his Williams watch
and puts down the time. He goes
to the piano, pulls out a filterless
Camel, lights it up
with a 1934 Ronson lighter,
and says hoarsely,
"Play it again, Sam."

Translated by Mario Suško
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Zvonko Maković

* 06.02.1947, Osijek, Croatia
lives in: Zagreb, Croatia

Zvonko Maković (1947) graduated in History of Art and Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, where he now holds the post of Head of the Modern Art and Visual Communications Department. His first book of poems, published in 1968, won him an award from the A.B. Šimić Fund.

In total he has published nine books of poetry.

In 2001 he won the coveted Goranov vijenac [Goran's Wreath], a national award, for

his overall poetic opus.

Zvonko Maković has also published five books of essays, as well as few books of columns and feuilletons and a dozen of monographs devoted to contemporary artists.

Zvonko Maković has organised numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, and in 2001 he was the national commissioner for the Venice Biennale.

His poems have been translated into the following languages: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish and Slovene.

Publications
  • Komete, komete...

    [Poetry]

    1978

  • Činjenice

    [Poetry]

    1983

  • Strah

    [Poetry]

    1985

  • Ime

    [Poetry]

    1987

  • Točka bijega

    [Poetry]

    Zagreb: Graficki zavod Hrvatske, 1990

  • Prah

    [Poetry]

    1992

  • Veliki predjeli, kratke sjene

    (selected poems)

    [Poetry]

    2000

  • Larges espaces, courtes ombres – Choix de poèmes

    Poèmes traduits du croate par Brankica Radić

    Paris: 2003

  • Međuvrijeme

    [Poetry]

    2005

Awards
  • Nagrada Vladimir Nazor

  • 1968 A.B. Šimić

  • 2001 Goranov vijenac

Links
  • Zvonko Maković @ Poetry International Web

    Poetry International Web presents poems of Nico Bleutge in original and english translations and further information about the poet.

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