{"id":93773,"date":"2020-12-04T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/?p=93773"},"modified":"2020-12-06T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T17:52:11","slug":"tamas-gergely-the-way-we-translated-rafis-poetry-into-swedish1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/?p=93773","title":{"rendered":"Tam\u00e1s Gergely: The way we translated Rafi\u2019s poetry into Swedish(1-7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>1 &#8211; The Szekler is talking about women<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>I\u00b4ve told you several times how we had translated Rafi\u2019s poetry into Swedish. I was the translator of the meaning of the text, Ove Berglund was the real translator of he poem. We worked via E-mail: I emailed him the raw translation, indicating the page numbers in the book, Ove had the Hungarian book \u201cA Marvel Thrown to the Ground\u201d. If he did not understand something, he asked for clarification immediately. Sometimes I had to explain the versification,other times the meaning. It wasn&#8217;t easy at all.<!--more--><br \/>\nIn his poem &#8222;February in G\u00fcd\u00fcc &#8222;, Rafi writes:<br \/>\n&#8222;The Sz\u00e9kely is talking about women.<br \/>\nMy throat feels dry,<br \/>\nI feel the desire to have a sip with him \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Translation by Janna Eliott: My throat feels dry; I want to take a dram with him.)<br \/>\nFirst of all, we had to clarify what the &#8222;Sz\u00e9kely &#8221; is. The Swedes know who the Hungarians are, but Ove has never heard of the Sz\u00e9kelys (Szekler in English) \u2013 so I made a small presentation.Then I had to explain his identity as related to the Sz\u00e9kelys (\u201cin my throat\u201d), a Roma, or as Lajos liked to call himself, a Gypsy who doesn\u2019t belong to the Szeklers.Now, &#8222;to have a sip with him&#8221; in Hungarian does not really mean just drinking with somebody, but it refers to the desire to belonging together, so that he can speak about &#8222;women&#8221; in the same way (my) as the unnamed Szekler does.<br \/>\nNow, a translator understands all this, but it is really difficult to pass it on to the Swedish reader. That Berglund succeeds is in fact Rafi&#8217;s merit: by using \u201etoo\u201c twice in passages 2 and 3: &#8222;he feels his beauty, too&#8221; or &#8221; It would be all nice for me, too\u201d he re-affirms the message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8211; The Szekler is talking about women I\u00b4ve told you several times how we had translated Rafi\u2019s poetry into Swedish. I was the translator of the meaning of the text, Ove Berglund was the real translator of he poem. We worked via E-mail: I emailed him the raw translation, indicating the page numbers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}