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Vassilis Amanatidis

Πιγκουΐνος ή Πώς κλειδώθηκα έξω απ’ το σπίτι

  • 1 Έχουν εγκαίνια στις κερήθρες | Translations: deenfr
  • 2 Μνηστή του παγωμένου κηπουρού | Translations: de
  • 3 Ο λαγός και η εξοχή | Translations: deenfrru
  • 4 Πιγκουΐνος ή Πώς κλειδώθηκα έξω απ’ το σπίτι | Translations: fr
  • 5 Ο λαιμός | Translations: de
  • 6 Έξι αποδείξεις ικανοτήτων | Translations: de
  • 7 Το κλάμα (τους) | Translations: de
  • 8 Christmas song | Translations: deenfr
  • 9 Βιντεοσκοπημένος βίος λουλουδιού | Translations: en
  • 10 PROSPERO | Translations: en
Language: greek
Translations: french (PINGOUIN)
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Πιγκουΐνος ή Πώς κλειδώθηκα έξω απ’ το σπίτι

Χτυπάει η πόρτα. Ναι;
τη ρωτώ, μα δεν απαντάει
Άρα κανείς
Και λέω Ας δω το ματάκι
μήπως κάποιος που είναι βουβός
ενεδρεύει

Ανοίγω: εκεί κάτω
Ένας πιγκουΐνος στο φως
Με μάτια φωσφόρου κλειστά
με κοιτάζει
Ντροπαλός, μα ξυνόταν και στην πλάτη
ξεδιάντροπα

Δεν ρωτάω Τι θέλεις εσύ
Καμπουριάζει ελαφρά
και μου δείχνει –
με φτερό σαν επίμονο χέρι– το
Σπίτι. Μα με μιας ξεγλιστράει
ποτ ποτ στα σκαλιά

Κοιτάζω: λείπουν τα έπιπλα, στάζει
η θερμάστρα μου χιόνι. Μα κλείνει
η πόρτα. Κλειδώθηκα έξω. Σαλεύει
στον διάδρομο μια μαύρη σελήνη

Την πόρτα χτυπάω Αχ, κλειδώθηκα έξω!
Μα δεν απαντάω
Άρα κανείς.
Και λέω Ευθύς, απ’ το ματάκι θα δω
αν εγώ κατοικώ
στο σπιτάκι μου ακόμη

Εμένα δεν βλέπω

μα στο σαλόνι
η Ανταρκτική:
Κάτασπρη
Ολόκληρη
Λάμπει –κυρτή

© Από το: Τριαντατρία, Γαβριηλίδης, Αθήνα 2003.
Categories: animals

Translations:

Language: french

PINGOUIN
COMMENT JE ME SUIS ENFERMÉ DEHORS

La porte frappe. Oui?
j’interroge, mais pas de réponse
Donc personne
Alors je dis Regardons par le judas
c’est peut-être un muet
embusqué

J’ouvre et là à mes pieds
un pingouin en pleine lumière
ses yeux de phosphore mi-clos
me regarde
Timide, mais il se gratte le dos
Sans se gêner

Je ne demande pas Que veux-tu
Il courbe le dos légèrement
et me montre –
de son aile comme une main insistante– la
Maison. Puis d’un coup il s’esquive
ploc ploc par les escaliers

Je regarde: plus de meuble, de la neige coule
de mon radiateur. Mais la porte
se ferme. Je suis enfermé dehors. Dans le couloir 
une lune noire se déplace

Je frappe à la porte. Ah! Je suis enfermé dehors! 
Mais pas de réponse
Donc personne.
Je me dis Direct par le judas je verrai bien
si c’est moi qui habite
encore chez moi

Moi, je ne me vois pas

Mais dans le salon
L’Antarctique:
Tout blanc
Tout entier
Brille - arqué 

Trente-trois, 2003 / Traduction: Hélène Zervas.
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Vassilis Amanatidis

photo © Panos Michail
* 17.07.1970, Edessa, Greece
lives in: Thessaloniki, Greece

Vassilis Amanatidis was born in Edessa, northern Greece, in 1970. He was raised in Thessaloniki, were he lives. He studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Master and PhD in Art History). He worked as an art curator at the Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art. He is currently working as a translator. He has published five collections of poetry: Dormitory: Nine nocturnal parables (Entefktirio, Thessaloniki 1999), House of ice (Kedros, Athens 2001), Thirtythree (Gavriilidis, Athens 2003), Summer indoors + six proofs of capability (To Oktaselido tou Mpilietou, Paiania 2004-2005), 4-D: Four-Dimensional Poems (Gavriilidis, Athens 2006). He has also published two collections of short-stories: Don’t eat me (Kastaniotis, Athens 2005) and Charybdi’s Dog (Kastaniotis 2008). His theatrical play The washbasin was staged in 2007 in Thessaloniki. His poems and short-stories have been translated in five languages, and have been included in anthologies, catalogues and literary journals in America, Canada, England, Sweden, Italy and Russia. He has participated as a performer in International Poetry Festivals and Poetry Readings.

 photo © Panos Michail
Without apparent roots in contemporary Greek poetry Vassilis Amanatidis is connected with those works of literature which submit their grammar to the immense territory of the imagination. By combining phonetics, dramaturgy and narrative he creates, with particular care for structural composition, works that elude the usual divisions of genres and which aim to awaken the spirit and the senses of the reader.

Publications
  • Dormitory: Nine nocturnal parables

    1999

  • House of ice

    2001

  • Thirtythree

    2003

  • Summer indoors + six proofs of capability

    2004 - 2005

  • Don’t eat me

    2005

  • 4-D: Four-Dimensional Poems

    2006

  • Charybdi’s Dog

    2008

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