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Montserrat Abelló

Avui sóc orgullosa del meu temps

  • 1 Deixa que el vent | Translations: en
  • 2 Tot és un immens buit | Translations: deenhe
  • 3 Set | Translations: en
  • 4 Plaer de viure | Translations: deen
  • 5 De quan ençà espero? | Translations: de
  • 6 El vent damunt la pell | Translations: de
  • 7 Somni de temps absent | Translations: de
  • 8 Avui sóc orgullosa del meu temps | Translations: deenesfr
Language: catalan
Translations: german (Heute bin ich stolz auf meine Zeit), english (Today I am proud of my time), spanish (Hoy estoy orgullosa de mi tiempo), french (Aujourd'hui je suis orgueilleuse de mon temps)
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Avui sóc orgullosa del meu temps

Avui sóc orgullosa del meu temps
i em dol de malversar-lo.

No faig res, no cuso ni planxo.
Vaig de pressa, passo i repasso
deu cops per un carrer.
Escruto les mirades, perdudes de tan fixes,
m’aturo a les botigues, veig les modes,
els colors verds i blaus.
M’obsedeixen els pintors abstractes
que parlen com els muts.
Em miro les mans, les meves i les vostres;
m’acosto adelerada als quioscs,
cerco llibres i noms. Sobretot noms!
Ignoro la premsa que baladreja mentides
-Si la veritat és sempre evident
i pura com un part!
Tinc pressa,
arribo al mar que em portarà ben lluny.
Però és fals, és fals,
s’han acabat els miracles.

Retorno a casa amb pas més segur,
a la vida diària.

© Montserrat Abelló
From: Vida diària, 1963
Audio production: Institut Ramon Llull

Translations:

Language: german

Heute bin ich stolz auf meine Zeit

Heute bin ich stolz auf meine Zeit
und es schmerzt mich nicht, sie zu vergeuden.

Ich tue nichts, weder nähen noch bügeln.
Gehe rasch, laufe zehn Mal
eine Gasse auf und ab.
Ich erforsche die in ihrer Starre verlorenen Blicke
bleibe vor den Geschäften stehen, betrachte die Mode,
die blauen und grünen Farben.
Mich fesseln die abstrakten Maler
die wie Stumme sprechen.
Ich betrachte die Hände, meine und eure,
nähere mich gierig den Kiosken,
suche Bücher und Namen. Vor allem Namen!
Übergehe die Presse, die lauthals Lügen verbreitet
Wo doch die Wahrheit immer offensichtlich
und klar ist wie eine Geburt!
Ich habe Eile,
komme ans Meer, das mich ganz weit weg bringen wird.
Aber es ist falsch, es ist falsch,
Schluß mit den Täuschungen.

Ich kehre sichereren Schritts nach Hause,
ins tägliche Leben zurück.

Übersetzt von Theres Moser
Language: english

Today I am proud of my time

Today I am proud of my time
and pained to fritter it away.

I’m doing nothing, don’t sew or iron.
I hurry, going up and down
a street ten times.
I study people’s gazes, lost in being so fixed,
stop at shops and see the fashions,
the tones of green and blue.
I am haunted by abstract painters
speaking like the mute.
I look at hands, at mine and all of yours;
avidly going to the news-stands,
seeking books and names. Especially names!
I ignore the press that is braying out its lies
– when the truth is always evident
and pure as giving birth!
I’m in a hurry,
get to the sea that will bear me far away.
But it’s false, it’s false,
for the miracles are over.

I go back home with firmer step,
to my life of every day.

Translated by Julie Wark
Language: spanish

Hoy estoy orgullosa de mi tiempo

Hoy estoy orgullosa de mi tiempo
y me duele malversarlo.

No hago nada, no coso ni plancho.
Voy deprisa, corro y recorro
diez veces una misma calle.
Escudriño las miradas, perdidas de lo fijas que están,
me detengo en las tiendas, veo las modas,
los colores verdes y azules.
Me obsesionan los pintores abstractos
que hablan como los mudos.
Me miro las manos, las mías y las vuestras;
me acerco anhelante a los quioscos,
busco libros y nombres. ¡Sobre todo nombres!
Ignoro la prensa que pregona mentiras
–¡Si la verdad es siempre evidente
y pura como un parto!
Tengo prisa,
llego al mar que me llevará muy lejos.
Pero es falso, es falso,
los milagros ya no existen.

Regreso a casa con pasos más seguros,
a la vida diaria.

Traducción de Pere Trilla
Language: french

Aujourd'hui je suis orgueilleuse de mon temps

Aujourd’hui je suis orgueilleuse de mon temps
et je souffre de le gaspiller.

Je ne fais rien, je ne couds ni ne repasse.
Je me hâte, je vais et viens
dix fois dans une même rue.
Je scrute les regards, perdus d’être si fixes,
je m’arrête dans les boutiques, je vois la mode,
les couleurs vertes et les bleues.
Je suis obsédée par les peintres abstraits
qui parlent comme les muets.
Je regarde mes mains, les miennes et les vôtres,
fascinée je m’approche des kiosques,
je cherche des livres et des noms. Surtout des noms!
Je snobe la presse qui clame des mensonges
–Puisque la vérité est toujours évidente
et pure comme un accouchement!
Je suis pressée,
j’arrive à la mer qui m’emportera bien loin.
Mais c’est faux, c’est faux,
il n’y a plus de miracles.

D’un pas plus assuré je rentre à la maison,
à la vie quotidienne.

Traduit par Bernard Lesfargues
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Montserrat Abelló

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* 01.02.1918, Tarragona, Spain
† 09.09.2014, Barcelona, Spain

Montserrat Abelló, born 1918 in Tarragona, Spain, spent her childhood in different parts of Spain and England and studied Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Barcelona. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) she worked as an English teacher and in January 1939, before the end of the war, she went into exile with her family, first fleeing to France and then to London and Chile, where she lived for almost twenty years.

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Abelló is writer who started relatively late in life, and published her first book of poems Vida Diària (Everyday life) in 1963 at the age of 45. Abelló’s poetry is notable for a voice that is at once firm and intimate, and for its overall consistency and unity of direction. Her life's work was published in 2002 in one volume entitled Al cor de les paraules: obra poètica 1963-2002 (In the Heart of Words: Poetic Works 1963-2002), for which in 2003 she received the Lletra d’Or Prize, as well as the Cavall Verd award, and Quima Jaume prize for poetry. Although Abelló began by writing poetry that was influenced by the social currents of the 50s and 60s, her personal perspective has always been brought to bear on her work, particularly her standpoint as a woman and as a mother - the birth of her mentally handicapped son was the impetus that made her to respond to her urge to write.

Over the years, her poetic expression has become more free and increasingly refined. Themes like love, loneliness, the passing of time, the injustices the world is immersed in, and poetic creation itself, achieve in her poetry an incisive and personal expression, which recalls the best of the twentieth-century's English-language women writers.

Abelló's poems have been translated into English, Spanish, Galician and German. As a translator herself, Abelló has been responsible for bringing a large number of English-language authors' works to a Catalan audience, including Agatha Christie, E.M. Forster, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and many others.

In 2007 she was awarded with the Cavall Verd-Rafael Jaume for her translations of Sylvia Plath, and in 2008 she received the Jaume Fuster Prize of Catalan writers and the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes.

Publications
  • Vida Diària

    Barcelona: Joaquim Horta, 1963

  • Vida Diària: paraules no dites

    Barcelona: La Sal, 1981

  • L’arrel de l’aigua

    València: Edicions de la Guerra, 1995

  • Són màscares que m'emprovo…

    Barcelona: Cafè Central, 1995

  • Dins l’esfera del temps

    Barcelona: Proa, 1998

  • Al cor de les paraules. Obra poètica 1963-2002

    Barcelona: Proa, 2002

  • Asseguda escrivint

    Barcelona: MX Edicions, 2004

  • Memòria de tu i de mi

    València: Edicions de la Guerra, 2006

  • Sylvia Plath – Sóc Vertical – Obra Poètica 1960 – 1963

    Barcelona: Proa, 2006

  • El fred íntim del silenci

    València: Denes, 2008

  • Poemes d'amor. Antologia.

    Paiporta: Denes, 2010

  • Més enllà del parlar concís

    Paiporta: Denes, 2014

Awards
  • 1998 Creu de Sant Jordi

  • 1999 Crítica Serra d’Or

  • 2003 Lletra d’Or

  • 2003 Quima Jaume

  • 2003 Cavall Verd

  • 2007 Cavall Verd [translation]

  • 2008 Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes

  • 2008 Premi Nacional de Cultura per la seva trajectòria professional i artística

Links
  • Escriptors.cat

  • Lletra.net

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