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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!
  

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Where? proletar or bourgeois?
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As a hispano- sicilian you should feel the sense, and the air of the twenties, thirties..Emotion: smile
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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.

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