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Kinga Fabó

A promiszkuus tükör

  • 1 Az Operabált megnyitom | Translations: en
  • 2 Diszkont báj | Translations: eneoidsqde
  • 3 A fül | Translations: bgdeeneliditsqsr
  • 4 Isadora Duncan tánca | Translations: enelidde
  • 5 A szó színeváltozása | Translations: sridenbgelde
  • 6 Nem vagyok város | Translations: ensrbgde
  • 7 Egy öngyilkos tükörkép | Translations: ensr
  • 8 A promiszkuus tükör | Translations: eoenbg
  • 9 Megrontott fűző panasza | Translations: enbg
  • 10 Gonosz vénasszonyok nyara | Translations: idsq
Language: hungarian
Translations: esperanto (La promiskua spegulo), english (The promiscuous mirror), bulgarian (Промискуитетът на огледалото)
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A promiszkuus tükör

I.
Közönyös vagy nagyvonalú?
Hozzá útlevél illenék.
Gyors egymásutánban letud.
Mindegy, kit. Aki belenéz.
A közönyében bízhatok:
velem is prompt menetre kész.
Mindig több nyelvben utazik.
Túl messzire mégsem merész –
(Vaktában osztja kegyeit.
Személy rajta nem esemény.)

II.
Nem kezdeményez, nem szakít.
Ám ha elébe van tolva
– legyen bár csúf vagy gyönyörű –
gerjed bármely látványomra.
E tökéletes mindegység
volna a mindenség? Puszta
testeim közt (nem élvezi
nem is unja) – több menetben
(vagyok neki) – az éppeni.
Így fűz bele a kozmoszba.

III.
Riasztó e túl nagy távlat.
Lenne kicsiny, de - bizonyos –
hogy maradna némi nyomom.
Ám tükrünk vakon szolgáltat.
Felejt gyors egymásutánban.
Rögtön vált. Nem válogat.
Mutat, csak mutat.
Összes kuncsaftjának enged.
Engem nyom nélkül leperget.
Gerjed, mechanikusan.

© Kinga Fabó
Audio production: Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum

Translations:

Language: esperanto

La promiskua spegulo

I.
Indiferenta? Larĝanima?
Pleje konvenus ĝin pasport’.
Rapid-sinsekve venas vic’.
Al ĉiu ajn’. Al rigardont’.
Fidigas min l’indiferent’,
ankaŭ mi rajtas: tuja foj’.
Plurlingvas ĝia entrepren’.
Sed ĝin ne logas fora voj’ –
(Ĝi disfavoras sen disting’.
Banalas sur ĝi reflektiĝ’.)

II.
Ĝi ne instigas, ne eksigas.
Sed, alŝovite, mia korp’
– estu repuŝa ĝi aŭ bela –
ekscitas ĝin per ajna form’.
Ĉu ĉi perfekta ĉiel ajn
egalus ajn-ĉielon? Laŭ
vic’ hazarda (sen ĝui ĝin
sed sen enu’) en bild-altern’
ĝi igas min ĉi-fojulin’.
Tiel ĝi min al kosmo ligas.

III.
Perspektivego tro timinda.
Preferus mi postlasi etan,
sed certan spuron pri mi mem.
Nia spegul’: servisto blinda.
Forgesas ĝi, forgestas kaj
tuj ŝanĝas. Ne preferas.
Nur peras, peras.
Ĝi cedas al ĉiu kliento.
Vicigas min sen permanento.
Erektas sen elekt’ – maŝin’.

Translated by István Ertl, Beletra Almanako 23. (Junio 2015)
Language: english

The promiscuous mirror

1
Is it detached or all-forgiving?
We need a passport to get through.
It nods us past in quick succession
Just anyone, no matter who.
I can rely on its detachment
As I move from place to place.
All those languages it masters,
Wherever I dare show my face!
It’s no big deal who’s looking in it
As it serves its own blind grace.

2
It neither befriends nor breaks up with you.
Though when you’re pushed in front of it
Whether you’re plain or just plain gorgeous
It frowns and takes the brunt of it.
Could this absolute indifference
Be Absolute? (It takes no joy
In my bare flesh, nor is it bored.)
In all my phases I am simply
What seems to vanish then return,
Part of its cosmic unconcern.

3
The distance is too terrifying.
It could be less but it is clear
some speck of me would still appear.
The mirror will serve us blindly
And whether harshly or quite kindly
Forgets at once. There’s little fuss,
Or major choice required for us.
It lets us do just what we want.
Mine drops me quick without a trace.
Mechanically wipes out my face.

Translated by George Szirtes
Language: bulgarian

Промискуитетът на огледалото

I.
Безразлично или пък великодушно?
Все едно ти иска паспорта.
Отмята ни, един след друг, набързо.
Все едно кой е. Който го погледне.
Разчитам на това равнодушие.
Готово е на бърз контакт и с мене.
Залага на езика.
Но без да стига надалече –
(Раздава милост слепешката.
Лицето ти не е събитие.)

II.
Не се занася и не къса с никого.
Ала застана ли пред него
– прекрасна, грозна, все едно –
Поглъща ме във всеки вид.
Туй съвършено равнодушие
ли е вселената? Сред разголените
ми тела (без наслаждение
и без досада) – многократно
(ни притежава) – което му попадне.
Така ме вплита в космоса.

III.
Страховитата далечина.
Нека съм малка, ала – навярно –
все ще остане някаква следа.
Но огледалото ни служи сляпо.
Забравя бързо и едно след друго.
Мени се на часа. И без подбор..
Показва, единствено показва.
На цялата си клиентела се отдава.
Отмята ме за миг и мене.
Възбуждане, механика.

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Kinga Fabó

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* 01.11.1953, Mezőtúr, Hungary
† 04.03.2021, Budapest, Hungary

Kinga Fabó was a Hungarian poet. She has pubslished eight poetry collection, among them a bilingual Indonesian-English poetry collection Racun/Poison which was published in 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Fabó’s poetry has appeared in various international literary journals and poetry magazines including Osiris, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Screech Owl, The Original Van Gogh’s Ear, Numéro Cinq, Deep Water Literary Journal, Fixpoetry and elsewhere as well as in anthologies like The Significant Anthology, Women in War, The Colours of Refuge, Poetry Against Racism, World Poetry Yearbook 2015, and others.

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A selection of poems have been translated into English by George Szirtes and appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation with an introduction by Szirtes.

Some of her individual poems have been translated into 17 languages altogether: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Esperanto, French, Galego, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil.

One of her poems (The Ears) has among others six different Indonesian translations by six different authors.

Earlier in her career Fabó was also a linguist dealing with theoretical issues, like logics or the philosophy of language and an essayist, too, interested in issues from the periphery, from the verge. She has also written an essay on Sylvia Plath.

Fabó has been a Poetry Editor at Diaphanous, an American e-journal for literary and visual art that was launched on in 2017.

In everything she’s done, Fabó has always been between the verges, on the verge, in the extreme.

She died in Budapest, Hungary in March 2021.

Publications
  • Értékváltozások a 19. század második felében

    Budapest: Szociológiai Intézet, 1980

  • Maradj még idegen

    [radio play]

    Budapest: 1984

  • A határon

    Essays

    Budapest: Magvető – JAK, 1987

  • Anesztézia

    [poetry]

    Budapest: Móra, Kozmosz, 1988

  • A fül

    [poetry]

    Budapest: Széphalom, 1992

  • Ellenfülbevaló

    [poetry]

    Budapest: Magvető, 1994

  • Elég, ha én tudom

    [poetry]

    Budapest: Seneca, 1996

  • Fojtott intenzitással, fojtottan

    [poetry]

    Budapest: Fekete Sas, 2002

  • Racun / Poison

    [poetry]

    Indonesian-English

    Jakarta: Teras Budaya, 2015

  • Bebáboz

    [poetry]

    Budapest: Gondolat, 2020

Awards
  • 2015 Free Poets Collective International Poetry Contest, First Prize

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