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Pilinszky János: Passion of Ravensbrück (Ravensbrücki passió in English)

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Ravensbrücki passió (Hungarian)

Kilép a többiek közűl,
megáll a kockacsendben,
mint vetitett kép hunyorog
rabruha és fegyencfej.

Félelmetesen maga van,
a pórusait látni,
mindene olyan óriás,
mindene oly parányi.

És nincs tovább. A többi már,
a többi annyi volt csak,
elfelejtett kiáltani
mielőtt földre roskadt.

1959



Source of the quotationhttp://mek.niif.hu

Passion of Ravensbrück (English)

He steps out from the others.
He stands in the square silence.
The prison garb, the convict's skull
blink like a projection.

He is horribly alone.
His pores are visible.
Everything about him is so gigantic,
everything is so tiny.

And this is all. The rest -
the rest was simply
that he forgot to cry out
before he collapsed.

 

Ted Hughes and



Source of the quotationThe Desert of Love: Selected Poems.

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