Arts Universe and Philology

Arts Universe and Philology
The blog "Art, Universe, and Philology" is an online platform dedicated to the promotion and exploration of art, science, and philology. Its owner, Konstantinos Vakouftsis, shares his thoughts, analyses, and passion for culture, the universe, and literature with his readers.

Τετάρτη 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2023

Ντύλαν Τόμας, «Κλόουν στο φεγγάρι». Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), Touchstone, The Jester (date not known), watercolour on card, 38.1 x 24.7 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.


Τα δάκρυά μου μοιάζουν με σιωπηλά πέταλα

κάποιου μαγικού τριαντάφυλλου

Kαι η θλίψη μου όλη ρέει μέσα από μια σχισμή ξεχασμένων ουρανών,

μέσ’ απ’ το χιόνι.

 

Έχω την αίσθηση πως αν την άγγιζα,

η γη θα γινόταν θρύψαλα

Eίναι τόσο λυπημένη και ωραία,

τόσο εύθραυστη σαν όνειρο.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), The Clown (1868), oil on canvas, 193.5 x 130 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Image by Paul Hermans, via Wikimedia Commons.

Μετάφραση: Ασημίνα Ξηρογιάννη

“Clown In The Moon”

Georges Clairin (1843–1919), The King’s Fool (1880), further details not known. Wikimedia Commons.

My tears are like the quiet drift

Of petals from some magic rose;

And all my grief flows from the rift

Of unremembered skies and snows.

 

I think, that if I touched the earth,

It would crumble;

It is so sad and beautiful,

So tremulously like a dream.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), La Clownesse assise (Seated Clown) (1896), colour lithograph, 52.7 x 40.5 cm, Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.

Nora Summers, [Dylan Thomas seated with right arm over chair, cigarette in hand], ca 1937-1938. Gelatin silver print. Dylan Thomas Literary File, Photography Collection, P2E. © Gabriel Summers.






 

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