Re: Which country?

Posted by Anonymous on 2014/3/10 5:46:38

Yes, it was a good time in Budapest for me.

But I have to disappoint you ... I got the translation from a guy called Michael Beevor. But who knows, maybe a Chinese with an English artist name ...

Look here ...

http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~lukacs/ja/poems2/jozsef-eng.htm


... and I am sorry, but ... a second disappointment. The two existing German translations seem to be even worse ...

http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/attila-jozsef/ein-wilder-apfelbaum-will-ich-werden-szeretnem-ha-vadalmafa-lennek.html


Maybe we should cooperate and translate some of his really great poems ...


Btw, you are right ... life is really sometimes a mystery. I studied a travel-guide about pubs and coffeehouses in Budapest ... and a guy wrote there ... at this place, I liked to sit and read poems of Attila József. I never went to this pub ... but I liked to read some of Atillas poems ...


Now one small request from me ... could you help me to find an Hungarian internet page, where I can see the original text of this poem by myself?

Would be great!!!

( ... I know about his problems with trains ... especially at the end of his life ... )

But I love traveling by train ... and I liked the end of that poem. Already when I was small, it was always something special for me to watch the passing trains, ... and their lights in the night.





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