Pieter Posted 23 years ago
Introduction
Introduction
By Attila Jozsef, 1927, translation by Peter Szabo , 2003
My good aunt Lily’s brother here,
Living his life just on plain bread,
Batu Khan’s Budapest relative,
didn’t have rings, azure duvet;
for whose poem death with mumps
in large kettle’ s boiling beans-
hey bourgeois! hey, proletar!-
me, Jozsef Attila, I’m here!
By Attila Jozsef, 1927, translation by Peter Szabo , 2003
My good aunt Lily’s brother here,
Living his life just on plain bread,
Batu Khan’s Budapest relative,
didn’t have rings, azure duvet;
for whose poem death with mumps
in large kettle’ s boiling beans-
hey bourgeois! hey, proletar!-
me, Jozsef Attila, I’m here!
Top answer
Where? proletar or bourgeois?
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As a hispano- sicilian you should feel the sense, and the air of the twenties, thirties..
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yeah. You are right. Doesn't the proletar-bourgeois terminology refer to that period of time?
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Introduction
My sister Lidi’s brother said
He’s kin to Batu khan, in Pest,
From his first year survives on bread,
No sky-blue quilt on which to rest.
From fathom-wide pots death will dole
Out cooked beans for his poetry.
You ask his name, hey! bourgeois, prole?
Attila József. Look at me.
My sister Lidi’s brother said
He’s kin to Batu khan, in Pest,
From his first year survives on bread,
No sky-blue quilt on which to rest.
From fathom-wide pots death will dole
Out cooked beans for his poetry.
You ask his name, hey! bourgeois, prole?
Attila József. Look at me.
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