Arados - Translating Lucian Blaga
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) was a Romanian poet and philosopher. He was brought up in the village of Sebeş near Alba Iulia in Transylvania. Of such a village he writes: Eternity I think was born into a country place, all thought seems slower there, slower too the beating of the heart, as though the breast were not its source but a place deeper within the earth. In the poem I await the Dimming of the Light, he speaks in the following terms: 'I bathe my eyes in the starry pool above, and know that in my soul I too bear innumerable stars and galaxies, wonders of the dark. But these I cannot see. No, because the sun within me burns too bright'. From the poem Biography, the following line is a reflection of his experience of life: Standing at the centre of the world, my sense of wonder makes me feel complete.
Read an example of Lucian Blaga's poetry, I await the Dimming of the Light, translated by Arados below.
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I Await the Dimming of the Light, Lucian Blaga
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Arados - Lucian Blaga
'B’as baile Sebeş na Trasalváine do Bhlaga, duine de scríbhneoirí móra na Rómáine sa bhfichiú aois. Shaothraigh sé cheithre ghort lena linn: an iriseoireacht, an fhealsúnacht, an drámaíocht agus an fhilíocht. Poemele Luminii (Dánta an tSolais) is teideal don chéad chnuasach uaidh (1917). Tá ceangal le brath sa gcnuasach seo agus ina shaothar ar fad idir tús an tsaoil fadó agus an saol atá inár dtimpeall féin anois. Ar an dara rud, tá blas na talún ar an saothar. ‘Ní file cathrach mé,’ arsa Blaga, ‘chuirfeadh an sruthán agus an crann mallacht orm [dá mba ea]'. Ní hiad focla na filíochta a scríobhann Blaga, agus filíocht na bhfocal. D’fhéadfaí a rá nach ag moladh na háilleachta a bhíonn sé, ach ag aimsiú an ní is cúis leis an áilleacht. Áit a mbíonn an duine ag machnamh ar an áilleacht atá ina thimpeall i dtraidisiún an iarthair, agus ag moladh Dé dá bharr, i saothar Bhlaga is cuid den áilleacht agus cuid den iontas atá i nDia féin agus sa duine chomh maith.'
Tá téacs an ailt a bhfuil sliocht as thuas le fáil ina iomláine sa gcáipéis atá ag bun an leathanaigh seo.
Gnéithe de Litríocht na Rómáine 1920-1990
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