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Aris Fioretos

Kärleksförklaring till fröken Ur

  • 1 Kärleksförklaring till fröken Ur | Translations: deen
  • 2 Litet försök att bevisa själens existens | Translations: deenlt
  • 3 Daniel Paul Schreber nr 2 anhåller om audiens | Translations: deen
  • 4 Fantomdikt Nr. 2 | Translations: deen
  • 5 Fantomdikt Nr. 7 | Translations: deen
  • 6 Fantomdikt Nr. 1 | Translations: deenlt
  • 7 Fantomdikt Nr. 10 | Translations: deenltru
  • 8 Fantomdikt Nr. 6 | Translations: deen
  • 9 Fantomdikt Nr. 27 | Translations: deenlt
  • 10 Fantomdikt Nr. 16 | Translations: deenltru
Language: swedish
Translations: german (Liebeserklärung an Fräulein Uhr), english (For Miss Clock (A Declaration of Love))
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Kärleksförklaring till fröken Ur

Lilla psykiska automatism,
Vad är det som får mitt hjärta att bulta
Som ett kokande ägg?
Är det din röst, ditt lugn,
   Ditt sinne för takt, din ton?
Du är bara en mycket liten gudinna,
        Jag vet,
Sval och elektrisk,
Med en frekvens
Där en puls skulle ha trivts.
Det vore lätt att tro
Att också din andning är en illusion,
Inga knotor, ingen kropp,
Rösten mest en passform
   För en passion.
Men vi vet båda, min darling,
     Att ögonblicket
Inte är något man griper,
Utan grips av.
Och så är det med kärleken.
Det gäller bara att inte dra sig
För att säga sitt hjärtas mening.
   Så låt mig säga min
Nu när tillfället ändå ges:
Då du är i mitt öra,
      Milda mekaniska musa,
Är jag i ditt våld.
Tror du mig inte?
Härma ett hjärta,
Får du se.

Men nu måste jag lägga på.
     So long,
Lilla elektriska klenod,
  So long.

© Aris Fioretos
From: unveröffentlich
Audio production: 2000 M. Mechner, literaturWERKstatt berlin

Translations:

Language: german

Liebeserklärung an Fräulein Uhr

Kleiner psychischer Automatismus,
Was bringt mein Herz zum Klopfen
Wie ein kochendes Ei?
Ist es deine Stimme, deine Ruh,
    Dein Sinn für Takt, dein Ton?
Du bist nur eine sehr kleine Göttin,
            Ich weiß,
Kühl und elektrisch,
Mit einer Frequenz
Wo es einem Puls gut ginge.
               Leicht zu glauben,
Auch deine Atmung sei nur Illusion,
Kein Körper, keine Knochen,
Die Stimme bloß Passform
    Für eine Passion.
Doch wissen wir beide, my Darling,
       Der Augenblick
Läßt sich nicht ergreifen,
               Sondern ergreift einen.
Und so ist es mit der Liebe.
Es gilt nur, nicht zu zögern,
Sein Herz zu öffnen.
    So laß‘ mich meines öffnen,
Da die Gelegenheit sich nun bietet:
Wenn du in meinem Ohr bist,
        Milde mechanische Muse,
Bin ich in deiner Gewalt.
Glaubst du mir nicht?
Mach‘ ein Herz nach,
Und du wirst sehen.

Aber nun muß ich auflegen.
        So long,
Kleines elektrisches Kleinod,
    So long.

_________________________________________ Die weibliche Stimme der telephonischen Zeitansage trägt in Schweden
den Namen „Fräulein Uhr“. – Anmerkung des Übersetzters.

Aus dem Schwedischen von Paul Berf

© Paul Berf
Language: english

For Miss Clock (A Declaration of Love)

Tiny, psychic automaton,
What makes my heart pound
Like a boiling egg?
Is it your voice, your calm,
     Your sense of measure, your tone?
You are but a very small goddess,
            I know,
Cool and electric,
With a frequency
Where a pulse would feel at home.
               It would be easy to assume
That your breathing, too, is an illusion,
No bones, no body,
The voice merely the marker
    For a passion.
But we both know, my darling,
    That the moment
Is nothing one seizes,
           But is seized by.
And thus it is with love.
Only one should never hesitate
To speak from the heart.
    So allow me to speak from mine
Now that I have the chance:
When you are in my ear,
    My mild, mechanical muse,
I am your prey.
You do not believe me?
Mime a heart,
And you will see.
But now I must hang up.
    So long,
Tiny electrical treasure,
   So long.

___________________________________________

The recorded female voice announcing the time on the phone is referred to,
colloquially, as “Miss Clock” in Sweden.

English translation by Jenny Jochens

© Jenny Jochens
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Aris Fioretos

photo © gezett.de
* 06.02.1960, Göteborg, Sweden
lives in: Stockholm, Germany

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1960, Aris Fioretos was educated at Stockholm University, Ecoles des hautes études in Paris, and Yale University. He received his doctorate in 1991. In the same year, he was invited as a “fellow” to the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities in Santa Monica; in 1992–94, he was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University; thanks to a Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung grant, he conducted research in Berlin in 1995; and in 1996, he was a visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Oslo. In 1997, Fioretos visited Berlin anew, this time as a guest invited by the DAAD Künstlerprogramm. Since 1998, he lives and works in Stockholm.

 photo © gezett.de
Fioretos has published several books of prose and criticism. Since 1985, he is a frequent contributor of essays and criticism, but also of poetry and prose to journals and newspapers. A translator of Paul Auster, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Vladimir Nabokov into Swedish, he is the editor of two multi-author volumes of critical essays in English.

Fioretos has received numerous grants, prizes, and rewards both in his native country and abroad.

Publications
  • Det kritiska ögonblicket: Hölderlin, Benjamin, Celan.

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Der kritische Moment: Hölderlin, Benjamin, Celan.

    Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, in Vorbereitung

    Stockholm: Norstedts, 1991

  • Delandets bok.

    Prosapoesie.

    Stockholm: Norstedts, 1991

  • Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan.

    [Hrsg.]

    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

  • Den grå boken.

    Stockholm: Norstedts, 1994

  • En bok om fantomer.

    Stockholm: Norstedts, 1996

  • Vanitasrutinerna.

    Kurzprosa.

    Stockholm: Norstedts, 1998

  • The Solid Letter.

    Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin.

    [Hrsg]

    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999

  • The Gray Book.

    [Englische Übersetzung: Den grå boken]

    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999

  • Die Seelensucherin.

    [German translation of Stockholm noir]

    Köln: DuMont Verlag, 2000

  • Stockholm noir.

    novel

    Stockholm: Norstedts, 2000

  • Sanningen om Sascha Knisch

    novel

    2002

  • Den siste greken (The Last Greek)

    novel

    2009

  • Halva solen

    prose

    2012

  • Avtalad tid (Appointments)

    conversations with Durs Grünbein

    2012

  • Mary

    novel

    Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 2015

  • Vatten, gåshud

    essays

    2015

  • Mary

    Roman

    Aus dem Schwedischen von Paul Berf

    München: Hanser Verlag, 2016

  • Nelly B:s hjärta

    novel

    2018

  • Nelly B.s Herz

    Aus dem Schwedischen von Paul Berf

    München: Hanser Verlag, 2020

Links
  • Homepage Aris Fioretos

    Website
  • Aris Fioretos @ Wikipedia

    overview of all the translations he made

    Website

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