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Ingeborg Bachmann
Gedichte 1962-1963
Tot ist alles*. Alles tot.
Und das Aug ist augelaufen, Augen, seid ihr ausgelaufen,

Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1962-1963
Dead is everything. Everything is dead. *
And the eye runs, eyes, you run,
all images swimming away,
and ears, now you only hear screams,
birds fall from roof,
all hoses collapse,
planes fall from sky,
heart after heart beats madly,
one after another dies.

So die and do so quietly,
gently and softly,**
don't you see, my friends, don't you see?

All celebrations end differently, the celebration of death
in life suddenly reappears in a thousand images
laid out on the bed, and the bed
full of oil and salve, vomit, gasps,
hemorrhaging, and heart failure is its battle zone,
as the vials are hurried into the syringes
and they bore the needle into your flesh, and
into the veins it drops, the flow spreading
into the muscles, coming to life.

And I hear: continue dying, continue living,
continue dying, ah, the day is dawning
and the sun lies on the cliffs, and the solarium
is empty, there I lie, I eat and smoke,
and I believe that I am not
alone, though I certainly was then.

transl. by Peter Filkins

* Dead is everything. Everything is dead - почти точная цитата из арии Короля Марка из оперы "Тристан и Изольда", в которой он оплакивает смерть Тристана

Tot denn alles! by Matti Salminen

Tot denn alles! by Matti Salminen


**Mild und Leise, Gently and Softly are the opening words to Isolde's final monologue before she expires over the body of Tristan in Wagner's opera.
помимо цитат из предсмертной арии Изольды, Liebestod, есть дополнительные аллюзии на всю оперу "Тристан и Изольда"

Liebestod sung by Waltraud Meier

Liebestod singed by Waltraud Meier

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