{"id":93802,"date":"2020-12-07T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/?p=93802"},"modified":"2020-12-07T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:57:22","slug":"tamas-gergely-the-way-we-translated-rafis-poetry-into-swedish-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/?p=93802","title":{"rendered":"Tam\u00e1s Gergely The way we translated Rafi\u2019s poetry into Swedish (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mute Desire<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Translation from any language \u2013 including from Hungarian – to any other language has its challenges. For example, the Hungarian words for \u201clove\u201d and \u201caffection\u201d are expressed by the single Swedish word \u201dk\u00e4rlek\u201d.The first section of his poem \u201cAutumn Amble” sounds like this:
\n„Mute desire penetrates my body”
\nMute desire … In this speculative, short poem in Hungarian, we are not quite certain what kind of desire he is speaking about \u2014 at least in my interpretation \u2014whether it is of a sensual nature, or it is about his desire to identify himself with the environment.
\nWe exchanged some emails on this topic, and Ove finally solved the puzzle by concluding that the poem is written by a thirty-year-old adult man, therefore is it pretty clear that the most appropriate of the multiple translation possibilities of the word \u201cdesire\u201d is the Swedish word „lust”
\n\u201dKroppen min
\nd\u00f6v
\nlust
\nsl\u00e5r
\nigenom.\u201d
\nThis was one of those poems that convinced Ove Berglund to begin translating Rafi\u00b4s volume, because Ove enjoys poetic challenges and plays. It\u00b4s a short poem, a sensitive one, and although without rhymes, the discovery of every single word\u2019s meaning was a challenge.<\/p>\n

(Translation: Zsuzsanna T\u00f3dor, Gabriel Farkas)<\/em><\/p>\n

(Hungarian text: Over the Rainbow \u2013 Facebook)<\/em><\/p>\n

(Mail to Gergely: gergely90@hotmail.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mute Desire Translation from any language \u2013 including from Hungarian – to any other language has its challenges. For example, the Hungarian words for \u201clove\u201d and \u201caffection\u201d are expressed by the single Swedish word \u201dk\u00e4rlek\u201d.The first section of his poem \u201cAutumn Amble” sounds like this: „Mute desire penetrates my body”<\/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-93802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93802","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=93802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujkafe.website\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}