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Pere Quart

El freu

  • 1 Conill | Translations: en
  • 2 Porc | Translations: en
  • 3 Les decapitacions: V | Translations: es
  • 4 El guany | Translations: es
  • 5 Alçaré el crit | Translations: esnl
  • 6 Lai | Translations: es
  • 7 Ja és hora que se sàpiga | Translations: es
  • 8 Les soledats | Translations: es
  • 9 Vacances pagades | Translations: eshrnl
  • 10 Espero, sospito, temo, voldria… | Translations: es
  • 11 El freu | Translations: enes
  • 12 Un ase considera un globus terraqüi | Translations: es
Language: catalan
Translations: english (The Strait), spanish (El estrecho)
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El freu

¿Encara s’esbadellen les albes lluny de mi
en el país feliç a on mena
un paorós camí,
sense rodera ni petjada lleu,
com d’aigua tèrbola i serena?

Jo, mentrestant, travesso el freu,
peu nu dins una barca que s’emplena
d’aigua tenyida per la sang
dels qui sofriren sense pensament
d’amor ni d’odi la darrera pena,
guerrers de rostre blanc
entre l’atzar i l’espavent,
només amb l’arma del lament.

Tota la nit dintre mos ulls oberts
a estels inerts, a llunes foses,
a sols extints camí d’albes moroses,
a inferns glaçats temps ha deserts,
a tanta nit, a tanta llum nonada,
a tanta mort a nova mort damnada.

Les ombres moren i reculen vers
l’ombra les clares vides.
Oh, blau, oh blau pretès
vivent només en les humanes crides,
indeleble i suau com el no-res!

© Pere Quart
From: Saló de tardor
Audio production: Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya
Categories: exile

Translations:

Language: english

The Strait

Do mornings go on blossoming far-off
in that contented country you can find
only by taking a road fearful and rough,
with no imprint or footstep light,
as with waters that are muddy and kind.

Meantime I am crossing the strait,
barefoot in a boat that fills
with water stained by the blood
of those who suffered pain that kills
without a thought of hate or love,
white-faced warriors
caught between blind fate and terrors,
with only their grief to act as barricade.

All night long, my eyes were open wide
on lifeless comets, on fused moons,
on extinct suns on roads to gloomy dawns,
on frozen hells that time has thrown aside,
on so much night, on so much light aborted,
on so much death, to yet more death deported.

The shadows die and brighter lives
recoil into the twilight.
Oh blue, oh longed-for blueness
alive only in human cries,
indelible and soft as nothingness.

Translated by Anna Crowe.
Language: spanish

El estrecho

¿Todavía despuntan lejos de mí las albas
en el país feliz a donde lleva
pavoroso camino,
sin rodera ni leve pisada,
como de agua enturbiada y serena?

Yo, entre tanto, atravieso el estrecho,
descalzo en una barca que se inunda
de agua teñida por la sangre
de aquellos que sufrieron sin un pensamiento
de amor o de odio la última pena,
guerreros de pálido rostro
entre el azar y el miedo,
tan sólo con el arma del lamento.

Toda la noche en mis ojos abiertos
a estrellas inerte, a lunas apagadas,
a soles extinguidos camino de albas lentas,
a infiernos helados hace tiempo desiertos,
a tanta noche, a tanta luz nonata,
a tanta muerte a muerte condenada.

Las sombras mueren y las claras vidas
vuelven hacia la sombra.

¡Oh, azul, oh azul deseado
viviente sólo en las humanas voces,
como la nada suave e indeleble!

Traducido por José Agustín Goytisolo. Poetas Catalanes Contemporáneos. Antología: Editorial seix barral, 1968.
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Pere Quart

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* 29.11.1899, Sabadell, Spain
† 18.06.1986, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Oliver (Sabadell, 1899-Barcelona, 1986), better known as Pere Quart, the name with which he signed his poems, was a poet, playwright, narrator, translator and journalist.

Oliver is regarded as one of the five most important Catalan poets of the 20th century and wrote poetry that has been seen as the most original of all. His first anthology, Les decapitacions (1934, The Beheadings), anticipates his later work: agile, focusing on incidents and drawn by realism, a reflection of the traumatic experience of the Spanish Civil War and exile, and with a despairing and sceptical vision of the world. He was born into a bourgeois family of industrialists and, together with Francesc Trabal and Armand Obiols, he founded the Sabadell Group. He remained a writer with a style marked by irony that attacked conventions. El misantrop, his translation of Molière’s play The Misanthrope, was awarded the President of the French Republic Prize in the 1950s. He was awarded the Honorary Prize for Catalan Letters in the 1970s and in the 80s received the City of Barcelona Prize, the Josep Maria de Sagarra Prize for Translation and the Government of Catalonia Prize for Poetry. However, in keeping with his nonconformism and his critical stance, he turned down the Sant Jordi Cross.

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Publications
  • Les decapitacions

    Sabadell: Contraban, 1934

  • Oda a Barcelona

    Barcelona: Comissariat de Propaganda, 1936

  • Bestiari

    Barcelona: Departament de Cultura, 1937

  • Saló de tardor

    Santiago de Xile: El Pi de les Tres Branques: 1947

  • Poesia de Pere Quart

    Barcelona: Aymà, 1949

  • Terra de naufragis

    Barcelona: Proa, 1956

  • Vacances pagades

    València: Diputació de València, 1961

  • Dotze aiguaforts i un autoretrat de Josep Granyer

    Barcelona: Monografies de la Rosa Vera: 1962

  • Obra de Pere Quart

    Barcelona: Fontanella, 1963

  • Circumstàncies

    Barcelona: Proa, 1968

  • Quatre mil mots

    Barcelona: Proa, 1977

  • Poesia empírica

    Barcelona: Proa, 1981

  • Antologia

    Barcelona: Proa, 1982

  • Poemes escollits

    Barcelona: Edicions 62 / La Caixa, 1983

  • Refugi de versos

    Barcelona: Proa, 1987

  • Els millors poemes

    Barcelona: Columna, 1998

  • Pingüí (poesia infantil i juvenil)

    Barcelona: Cruïlla, 2004

Awards
  • 1936 Joaquim Folguerola - Bestiari

  • 1955 Óssa Menor - Terra de naufragis

  • 1957 Guimerà (Mèxic) - Terra de naufragis

  • 1959 Ausiàs March (Gandia) - Vacances pagades

  • 1960 Martí Peydró - Temps, records

  • 1962 Lletra d Or - Vacances pagades

  • 1970 Premi d Honor de les Lletres Catalanes

  • 1980 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona

  • 1980 Medalla de la Ciutat de Sabadell

  • 1981 Literatura Catalana de la Generalitat de Catalunya de poesia - Poesia empírica

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