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Carles Duarte

Aquell qui encara no ha nascut

  • [Déu és el temps] | Translations: frde
  • 1 Aquell qui encara no ha nascut | Translations: enfrde
  • 2 [Desem el passat en la memòria] | Translations: frdeisites
  • 4 El viatge | Translations: heptes
  • 5 L’abisme | Translations: enfrdehept
  • 6 La mort | Translations: frdeheptes
  • 7 Niu i Sepulcre | Translations: dehees
  • 8 [Tanca els llavis del dia] | Translations: fr
  • 9 Terra | Translations: ende
  • 10 Vestigis | Translations: enesde
Language: catalan
Translations: english (The still unborn ), french (Celui qui n’est pas encore né), german (Wer noch nicht gelebt hat)
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Aquell qui encara no ha nascut

"Més feliç que els uns i els altres és el qui encara no ha nascut"
Eclesiastès, 4.2


Aquell qui encara no ha nascut
no ha viscut ni el dolor ni la paraula,
ni el creixement ni el cansament dels dies,
ni l’ha colpit l’avidesa dels cossos
o el llambrec de la llum damunt les mans,
i no coneix l’agilitat del puma
ni els colors vistents del guacamai;
no ha sofert tampoc cap fred inhòspit
ni la humitat feixuga
que alenteix les hores,
no s’ha emprovat el vell vestit del mar,
ni ha tocat els arbres ni les roques,
ni ha caminat la mort.

Potser és feliç
el qui encara no ha nascut,
però no duu ni a la pell ni a la memòria
el tast dels anys,
i la textura del vent
no n’habita la sang,
ni ha fruitat als seus llavis
el crit de la tendresa.

Potser és feliç
sense l’olor del te
i el gust de la taronja.

Jo no podria ser-ho.

From: Tríptic hebreu
La Magrana/RBA, 2002
Audio production: Institut Ramon Llull
Categories: life & relationship

Translations:

Language: english

The still unborn

"More fortunate than either, I reckoned those yet unborn"
Ecclesiastes, 4.2

The yet unborn
has known neither pain nor word,
nor the growing of the day nor its falling off,
nor has felt the avid body's yearning
or the glance of light on the hands;
he does not know the nimbleness of pumas,
the loud colours of macaws;
he has not felt the unwelcoming cold
or the heavy dampness
that slows the passing of hours,
he has never donned the sea's ancient robes
nor has he touched the forest or the rocks
nor ever trod the path of death.
He might be happy
to be unborn,
but does not bear in skin or memory
the taste of passing years;
the weave of the wind
does not course through his blood,
and the cry of tenderness
lies mute between his barren lips.
Perhaps he’s quite content
without the smell of tea
or the taste of oranges.
I could never be.

Translated by Robert Archer
Language: french

Celui qui n’est pas encore né

“Et plus heureux que les uns et les autres, celui qui n’est pas encore né”.
ECCLÈSIASTE, 4.2

Celui qui n’est pas encore né,
qui n’a vécu ni la douleur ni la parole,
ni la croissance ni l’extinction des jours,
que l’avidité des corps n’a pas blessé,
pas plus que l’éclat de la lumière
sur ses mains,
celui qui ne connaît pas l’agilité du puma
ni les couleurs voyantes du perroquet,
celui qui, non plus, n’a souffert du froid inhospitalier
ni de la lourde moiteur
qui ralentit les heures,
celui qui n’a pas essayé le vieux costume de la mer,
qui n’a touché ni les arbres ni les roches,
celui qui n’a pas emprunté le chemin de la mort.

Peut-être est-il heureux
celui qui n’est pas encore né,
mais il ne garde
ni sur sa peau, ni dans sa mémoire,
la saveur des ans,
et la texture du vent
n’habite pas son sang,
et le cri de la tendresse
n’a pas fructifié sur ses lèvres.

Peut-être est-il heureux
sans l’odeur du thé
et le goût de l’orange.

Moi, je ne le pourrais pas.

Traduit par Marie-Claire Zimmermann
Triptyque hébreu, Écrits des Forges, 2005
Language: german

Wer noch nicht gelebt hat

»Und besser daran als beide ist, wer noch nicht geboren ist«
Prediger, 4.3

Wer noch nicht gelebt hat,
hat weder den Schmerz erlebt noch das Wort,
weder das Wachsen der Tage noch ihre Erschöpfung,
die Gier der Körper traf ihn nicht
oder der rasche Blick des Lichts auf den Händen,
er kennt nicht die Gewandtheit des Pumas
und die prächtigen Farben des Ara;
auch litt er nie unwirtliche Kälte
noch die schwere Feuchtigkeit,
die die Stunden verlangsamt,
probierte nie das alte Meereskleid an,
berührte weder Bäume noch Felsen
und hat den Tod nicht durchwandert.

Vielleicht ist glücklich,
wer noch nicht geboren wurde,
aber er trägt weder auf der Haut noch im Gedächtnis,
wie sich die Jahre anfühlen,
und die Stofflichkeit des Windes
wohnt nicht in seinem Blut,
auf seinen Lippen gab noch keine Früchte
der Schrei der Zärtlichkeit.

Vielleicht ist er glücklich
ohne den Geruch nach Tee
und den Geschmack der Orange.

Ich könnte es nicht sein.

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Carles Duarte

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* 16.09.1959, Spain, Spain
lives in: , Spain

Carles Duarte is a poet and linguist. Carles Duarte’s books have been translated into various languages and have been awarded some of the most significant Catalan literary prizes.

As a linguist, Duarte has published studies on linguistic history. Presently he directs the Lluís Carulla Foundation, a private cultural institution that is very active in the cultural and educational field.

He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic.

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He has published, among many others, the volumes of poetry Tríptic hebreu (Hebrew Triptych, La Magrana, 2002), El centre del temps (The Centre of Time, Edicions 62, 2003) and Els immortals (The Immortals, 3i4, 2006), which shares tenderness, dreams and oblivion as central themes.

His poetry frequently engages in dialogue with other arts by means of his collaboration with painters, sculptors and photographers such as Antonio Hervás and Manlio Masu, Guido Dettoni, Manuel Cusachs, Kim Castells, and singers such as Dounia Hédreville and Josep Tero. Recently, he published S’acosta el mar (3 i 4, 2010).

With regard to his poetry, Marie-Claire Zimmermann writes: “The Duartian poetic ‘I’ is thought of as a unit: a body of flesh indeed which celebrates all forms of physical pleasure – sensorial, sensual and sexual – but which experiences all its sensations through the imagination, through the conscience, without ever forgetting that its place is the universe that precedes it and survives it”.

Publications
  • Vida endins

    [‘Life Inside’]

    Palma: Moll, 1984

  • Paisatges efímers

    [‘Ephemerals Landscapes’]

    Barcelona: Columna, 1989

  • La pluja del temps

    [‘The Rain of Time’].

    Barcelona: Columna, 1990

  • La pell del somni

    [‘The Skin of Dream’]

    Barcelona: Columna, 1991

  • Llavis de terra

    [‘Lips of Dust’]

    Barcelona: Columna, 1993

  • Terra

    [‘Land’]

    Barcelona: Columna, 1994

  • Cohèlet

    [‘Cohèlet’]

    Barcelona: Columna, 1996

  • Ben Sira

    Barcelona: Columna, 1996

  • Qumran

    Barcelona: Columna, 1997

  • D'una terra blava

    [‘From One Blue Land’]

    Palma: Moll, 1997

  • Khepri

    Barcelona: Columna, 1998

  • Ha-Cohen

    Barcelona: Seuba, 1999

  • El somni

    [‘Dream’]

    Barcelona: La Magrana, 2000

  • El silenci

    [‘Silence’]

    Barcelona: La Magrana, 2001

  • La llum

    [‘Light’]

    Perspectiva Editorial Cultural, 2001

  • Tríptic hebreu

    [‘Hebrew Triptych’]

    Barcelona: La Magrana, 2002

  • Primavera d'hivern

    [‘Spring of Winter’]

    Barcelona: March editor, 2002

  • El centre del temps

    [‘The Centre of Time’]

    Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2003

  • Els immortals

    [‘The Immortals’]

    València: Tres i Quatre, 2006

  • Miratges

    [‘Mirages’]

    Lleida: Pagès editors, 2006

  • Maríntim

    Barcelona: Meteora, 2008

  • Arwad

    Sitges: Papers de Terramar, 2009

  • S’acosta el mar

    València: Tres i Quatre, 2010

  • A quatre mans

    Juneda: Fonoll, 2011

  • Una magrana d'astres

    Girona: Cubert, 2011

  • Alba del vespre

    València: 3i4, 2013

  • La mà del temps

    Tarragona: Arola Editors, 2013

Awards
  • 2004 Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or de Poesia

  • 2007 Creu de Sant Jordi

  • 2014 Premi de la Crítica Catalana de Poesia

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