Federico García Lorca의 The Gypsy and the Wind [원문]

[은밤]

Federico García Lorca(1898–1936)라는 스페인 시인의 시입니다.

20세기 최고의 스페인 시인이라고 불린답니다. 38세에 스페인 내란에서

총살당했답니다. 요즘 이 사람이 묻힌 곳을 파내는 문제가 스페인의

상황과 맞물려서 관심을 끌고 있습니다. 아래에 기사를 첨부했습니다.

제게 The Gypsy and the Wind는 단번에 읽혔습니다. 어렵지 않은 시이며

독특한 인상을 남깁니다. Saint Christopher만 특별하게 주목되는데

이에 대한 자료는 맨 아래에 인용했습니다.

The Gypsy and the Wind

Playing her parchment moon

Precosia comes

along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights.

The starless silence, fleeing

from her rhythmic tambourine,

falls where the sea whips and sings,

his night filled with silvery swarms.

High atop the mountain peaks

the sentinels are weeping;

they guard the tall white towers

of the English consulate.

And gypsies of the water

for their pleasure erect

little castles of conch shells

and arbors of greening pine.

Playing her parchment moon

Precosia comes.

The wind sees her and rises,

the wind that never slumbers.

Naked Saint Christopher swells,

watching the girl as he plays

with tongues of celestial bells

on an invisible bagpipe.

Gypsy, let me lift your skirt

and have a look at you.

Open in my ancient fingers

the blue rose of your womb.

Precosia throws the tambourine

and runs away in terror.

But the virile wind pursues her

with his breathing and burning sword.

The sea darkens and roars,

while the olive trees turn pale.

The flutes of darkness sound,

and a muted gong of the snow.

Precosia, run, Precosia!

Or the green wind will catch you!

Precosia, run, Precosia!

And look how fast he comes!

A satyr of low-born stars

with their long and glistening tongues.

Precosia, filled with fear,

now makes her way to that house

beyond the tall green pines

where the English consul lives.

Alarmed by the anguished cries,

three riflemen come running,

their black capes tightly drawn,

and berets down over their brow.

The Englishman gives the gypsy

a glass of tepid milk

and a shot of Holland gin

which Precosia does not drink.

And while she tells them, weeping,

of her strange adventure,

the wind furiously gnashes

against the slate roof tiles.

--------------

Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute

By IAIN SULLIVAN and CIARAN GILES, Associated Press Writers

Wed Sep 24, 3:11 AM ET

The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War.

The dispute has arisen over whether to open the grave of Federico Garcia Lorca, widely considered Spain's best 20th century poet and playwright.

At the start of the 1936-39 war, Viznar, near the ancient city of Granada, became one of many execution grounds for perceived opponents of Francisco Franco, the army general who unleashed the conflict by rising up against the elected, leftist Republican government.

People were rounded up, brought here and shot, their bodies dumped in a ravine in unmarked graves — all for simply having been considered supporters of the government.

Garcia Lorca was shot along with a schoolteacher named Dioscoro Galindo Gonzalez and two labor union activists — Francisco Galadi and Juan Arcolla — on Aug. 18, 1936. Their bodies are believed buried near an olive tree near Viznar.

Lorca, dead at 38, is best known for tragedies such as "Blood Wedding" and his poetry collections "Poet in New York and "Gypsy Ballads." His work draws on universal themes — love, death, passion, cruelty and injustice.

While his executioners may have wanted to erase all memory of Garcia Lorca, a dispute over whether to open his grave is now a focus of a broader effort to give proper burial to the thousands believed murdered by Franco's militias.

For years, the poet's descendants blocked exhumation requests by the Galindo and Galadi families. Tired of waiting, Galindo and Galadi relatives took their case to Baltasar Garzon, the crusading investigative magistrate, who was already gathering his own information on the Franco regime's killings.

The Spanish judge is famous for using international warrants to go after former military rulers accused of human rights abuses, notably Augusto Pinochet of Chile in 1998. But in setting his sights on Spain's own murky past, he is treading sensitive ground.

Since Franco's death in 1975, Spain as a nation has tried to put the Civil War behind it for the sake of rebuilding its democracy. The Socialist government passed a law denouncing the Franco regime and was accused by the conservative opposition of reopening old wounds.

An estimated 500,000 died in the civil war. The Franco regime carried out a thorough accounting of killings by Republican militias — 55,000, historians say — and gave them proper burials. But those on the opposing side had no such satisfaction.

On Monday, groups working to account for the dead gave Garzon the names of 130,000 people believed to have been summarily shot and dumped in unmarked graves across the country.

"It's about time Spanish authorities took responsibility for this," said Emilio Silva, a former journalist whose quest to find the remains of his murdered grandfather a decade ago gave rise to a nationwide network of like-minded associations.

Silva says that last year's legislation, while making symbolic amends to victims, basically pushed aside the issue of the missing, leaving families with no alternative but legal action.

In the Garcia Lorca case, at least, the pressure for closure appears to have produced results. Last week, the family unexpectedly announced that while it would still prefer the poet's remains to rest untouched and the whole area turned into a monument, it would not oppose an exhumation order.

Nieves Galindo, granddaughter of the slain teacher, said she took the case to Garzon after 10 years of battling to have his remains dug up, formally identified and reburied in his hometown

"My only desire is that each person should have their loved ones where they want them," she said.

Garzon may take months to rule on opening the grave, but meanwhile the movement to account for the dead is gathering momentum. So far, Silva said, some 160 mass graves have been dug up and some 4,000 bodies recovered.

The Viznar area, where up to 3,000 people are believed buried, is dotted with memorial plaques and stones.

"Lorca Was Everyone" reads one.

____

SAINT CHRISTOPHER

CATHOLIC PATRON SAINT OF TRAVEL SAFETY

The one-time Catholic patron saint of travellers, Saint Christopher -- whose name means "Christ carrier" -- is not mentioned in the Bible. While there may have been a 3rd century Greek martyr named Christopher, the story told of him is now generally acknowledged to be a 12th century addendum to the Christian canon. Christopher is typically depicted as a tall, middle-aged, bearded man with a staff who wades across a river carrying the Christ child on his shoulders. As the story goes, the extremely robust Christopher devoted his life to carrying people across an otherwise unfordable stream. One day a little child appeared before him and asked to be carried across. To Christopher's surprise, as he forded the river, the child steadily increased in weight until Christopher found his tiny burden so heavy that it was amost impossible to bear. When he asked the holy babe why he weighed so much, the child replied that he carried the world's sins upon his shoulders. As a reward for his service, Christopher's staff was miraculously transformed into a living tree, and Christopher himself became the Patron Saint of travellers.

Christopher was a widely popular saint, and was especially revered by mariners, ferrymen, and travellers. HIs feast day was July 25th, except in Greece, where it was celebrated on March 9th. In modern times a major center of his cult was in Italy and among Italian-Americans, a fact that did not stop the Vatican from de-canonizing him during a late 20th century purge of the list of saints. Saint Christopher medals and holy cards are more difficult to find now that his status has been downgraded to that of a mere legend, but they are still being manufactured and many Mexican and Italian Catholics still believe that his image is the best amulet to carry in one's wallet, wear on a necklace while on a journey, or hang from the rear view mirror attachment of one's car.

2008. 9. 24.

[estere]

The flutes of darkness sound, and a muted gong of the snow. 저는 이표현이 참 마음에 듭니다. 집시 에스메랄다도 템버린을 들고 춤을 추었었죠. 회화적 표현들이 가득한 시 군요. 저는 이시를 단숨에 읽어내지는 못했지만(선장님과는 같을 수 없는게 당연 한거 지만요.^^) 장면들을 떠올려 보았습니다. Holland gin... 총을 말하는건가요.. 술을 말하는건가요..스페인은 카톨릭신자가 대부분이라지요..

[은밤]

a shot of ... gin은 진 한 모금입니다. 향기나는 gin 한 모금 Jean의 입술 한 모금... 날씨가 쌀쌀해지니 생각나는 것이 많네요.