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Antoine Cassar

A Dunánál

  • 1 Merħba
  • 2 C’est la vie | Translations: dadeenesfrit
  • 3 Tak, jako pták | Translations: deen
  • 4 A Dunánál | Translations: dadeenit
  • 5 Hüzün | Translations: deenfrit
  • 6 Gonbidapena
  • 7 Ciao amore ciao | Translations: dadeenesfrit
  • 8 Ċomb | Translations: enes
  • 9 L-Ajkla | Translations: enit
  • 10 Bejn | Translations: en
Language: maltese
Translations: danish (Ved Donaus Bred), german (An der Donau), english (By the Danube), italian (In riva al Danubio)
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A Dunánál


Talán Budapest ég. Tal vez se iluminaron
de poniente las calles. Perhaps the crats who freed her
now besiege her with colour, b'rebbiegħa dejjem ġdida...
Ah, дорогой товарищ ! Vigyázz - egy, kettő, három,

Semmi. Mennyi? Jobb áron: peasant blood by the gallon,
húzni, tolni, öffnen, schliessen, west to east and back, ida
y vuelta, cual muelle en manos de un niño fratricida…
És a Duna csak folyt, like the river of Charon.

O tempora, o mores! La ciudad de las flores
vendió su alma al dólar, her charm for neon furniture;

thus I, tourist of tongues, catador de amores,
bête en quête de beauté, verssorok őrült koldusa,

minn tarf il-pont imkisser inbul biex nara ddub
my tingling western shame in the kidney-brown Danube.
 

© Antoine Cassar
From: Mużajk. An Exploration in Multilingual Verse
Edizzjoni Skarta, 2008
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2009
Categories: translingual / hybrid / Pidgin

Translations:

Language: danish

Ved Donaus Bred


Måske brænder Budapest. Måske er det aftenlysets glød
som oplyser gaderne. Måske er det de liberale markedskræfter
som frigjorte hende, der nu belejrer hende med farver,
med en et evigt forår. Åh, kære kammerat! Giv akt – en, to, tre,

Intet. Hvor meget? Billigere: bondeblod i litervis,
træk, skub, åben, luk, fra vest til øst og tilbage igen,
som en fjeder i hånden på en lille ond Cain...
Og Donau flød videre som en Karon’s flod.

Ak, hvilke tider, hvilke skikke! Blomsterbyen
har solgt sin sjæl til kapitalen, givet sin charme i bytte for neon møblering,

og jeg, turist i fremmede tunger, hedonist,
uhyre på jagt efter skønhed, gal tigger efter verselinier,

jeg stiller mig for enden af ruinen af en bro
og pisser med et lille gys min velfærds skam i Donaus nyrebrune vand.

På dansk ved Peter Wessel
Language: german

An der Donau


Vielleicht steht Budapest in Flammen. Vielleicht sind die Straßen vom Sonnenaufgang illuminiert.
Vielleicht belagern die Mächte, die sie befreiten,
jetzt mit Farbe, mit ewig neuem Frühling…
Ah, mein guter Kamerad! Gib acht – eins, zwei, drei,

Nichts. Wie viel? Ein besserer Preis: Bauernblut kanisterweise,
ziehen, drücken, öffnen, schließen, von West nach Ost und dann zurück, hin
und her, wie eine Feder in de Hand eines Brudermörders…
Und die Donau fließt dahin, wie der Fluss in die Unterwelt.

O, Zeiten, o Sitten! Die Stadt der Blumen
hat ihre Seele dem Dollar verkauft, ihren Charm für Neonmobiliar;

so komme ich, der Tourist der Zungen, der Tester der Liebe,
das Biest, das Schönheit sucht, Wahnsinniger, der um Reime bettelt,

vom Ende der zerstörten Brücke pisse ich ins Wasser,
um meine westliche Scham in der nierenbraunen Donau sich auflösen zu sehen.

Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Michael Apweiler
Language: english

By the Danube


Perhaps Budapest is burning. Perhaps the streets have been lit up with sunset. Perhaps the crats who freed her now besiege her with colour, with a spring forever new… Ah, dear comrade! Beware - one, two, three,

Nothing. How much? A better price: peasant blood by the gallon, pull, push, open, close, west to east and back, gone and returned, like a spring in the hands of a fratricide child… And the Danube simply flowed, like the river of Charon.

Oh the times, oh the manners! The city of flowers has sold her soul to the dollar, her charm for neon furniture;

thus I, tourist of tongues, taster of loves, beast in search of beauty, mad beggar for lines of verse,

from the end of the broken bridge I piss in order to watch melt
my tingling western shame in the kidney-brown Danube.

Translated by Antoine Cassar
Language: italian

In riva al Danubio


Forse Budapest brucia. Forse le strade
si sono accese di tramonto. Forse i (buro/demo)crati che la liberarono
oggi l’assediano di colore, di una primavera sempre nuova...
Ah, caro camerata! Attento - uno, due, tre,

Niente. Quanto? Un prezzo migliore: sangue di contadino a galloni,
tira, spingi, apri, chiudi, da ovest ad est e indietro, andata
e ritorno, come una molla nelle mani di un bambino fratricida...
E il Danubio semplicemente scorreva, come il fiume di Caronte.

O tempora, o mores! La città dei fiori
ha svenduto l’anima al dollaro, il suo incanto per mobili al neon;

così io, turista di lingue, assaggiatore di amori,
bestia in cerca di beltà, pazzo mendicante di versi,

dalla fine del ponte rotto piscio per veder sciogliersi la
mia fremente vergogna occidentale nel marrone renale del Danubio.

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Antoine Cassar

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* 22.06.1978, London, United Kingdom
lives in: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Antoine Cassar was born on June 22, 1978 in London to Maltese parents. Cassar grew up and studied in England, Malta, Spain, Italy and France.

Beyond his monolingual Maltese poetry, Cassar is the author of Mużajk, a work in progress braiding together the sounds and cadences of different tongues into a fluid rhythm and a coherent stream of thought. Written mainly in a blend of English, French, Italian, Maltese and Spanish (in no particular order), and later sowing in other languages according to the subject, the mużajki or mosaics journey through a variety of themes, among them the pleasure and futility of living, love unrequited or fulfilled, the beauty of the Mediterranean, the absurdity of colonialism and its after-effects, and the at once exhilarating and disorienting feeling of variety itself.

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The first series of Cassar's “mosaics” appeared, together with a number of poems in Maltese, in the anthology Ħbula stirati (Tightropes) in 2007. A handful of mosaics have also appeared in publications in Italy, Spain, Denmark, Kuwait, Australia, and the U.S. Cassar has taken part in a number of European poetry festivals, including the Københavns Poesifestival, the Festival de Poesía de la Mediterrània of Palma de Mallorca, and the Poesiefestival Berlin.

Antoine Cassar lives in Luxembourg, where he works as a translator.

Publications
  • Ħbula stirati

    (Tightropes)

    with Mario Vella, Alex Vella Gera, Kevin Saliba & Ċali Grima

    Self-published, 2007

  • Mużajk

    an exploration in multilingual verse

    Edizzjoni Skarta, 2008

Awards
  • 2008 Segnalazione, Premio Nosside

Links
  • Antoine Cassar on Youtube

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