日本老婆

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日本老婆

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是的，上帝说，日本女人
才是真正的女人，他们不会忘记，
鞠躬和微笑
来治愈男人过去的伤口；
但美国女人会杀死你
像撕掉一个灯罩，
美国女人的关心不超过一毛钱，
他们在出轨中迷失，
因为神经质而不得好报：
总是愁眉不展，胃痛，
理想破灭，神经兮兮；
但上帝说，日本女人是这样的：
当我回到家，门是锁上的
当我破门而入，她突然拿出切面包的小刀
在床下追砍我
接着她的妹妹也进来了
他们使我在床底下呆了两天，
最终，放我出来时
她没有提及律师，
仅仅说，你将永远不能再冤枉我了，
我不信；但她因我而死了
临死前，她说，
你可以继续冤枉我，
我确实做了。
但你知道，那时
我感到比她活着时，情况更糟；
没有声音，也没有小刀，
除了墙上贴着的一些日本图绘，
所有的小人都坐在红色的河边
绿色小鸟在飞，
我把它们取下来，让它们
和我的衬衣一起面对着抽屉，
这是我第一次意识到
她已经死了，甚至是我埋葬了她；
有些天我再次把它们取出来，
所有棕褐色脸的小人
都开心地坐在他们的桥上，小屋里
群山上——
但不是现在，
也不是刚刚。

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski 1920–1994 Charles Bukowski

O lord, he said, Japanese women,
real women, they have not forgotten,
bowing and smiling
closing the wounds men have made;
but American women will kill you like they
tear a lampshade,
American women care less than a dime,
they’ve gotten derailed,
they’re too nervous to make good:
always scowling, belly-aching,
disillusioned, overwrought;
but oh lord, say, the Japanese women:
there was this one,
I came home and the door was locked
and when I broke in she broke out the bread knife
and chased me under the bed
and her sister came
and they kept me under that bed for two days,
and when I came out, at last,
she didn’t mention attorneys,
just said, you will never wrong me again,
and I didn’t; but she died on me,
and dying, said, you can wrong me now,
and I did,
but you know, I felt worse then
than when she was living;
there was no voice, no knife,
nothing but little Japanese prints on the wall,
all those tiny people sitting by red rivers
with flying green birds,
and I took them down and put them face down
in a drawer with my shirts,
and it was the first time I realized
that she was dead, even though I buried her;
and some day I’ll take them all out again,
all the tan-faced little people
sitting happily by their bridges and huts
and mountains—
but not right now,
not just yet.

王法

是的日本女人是东方女人。温柔但要——牌坊。译的形象——生动。你该译一点斯特罗姆。

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法大空 发表于 2012-2-5 20:24 是的日本女人是东方女人。温柔但要——牌坊。译的形象——生动。你该译一点斯特罗姆。

可惜我不懂瑞典文，也没有找着英译本，否则可以试着译下。



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