Hurston, Zora N. ''Their Eyes were watching God''-Fr-En-Sp

tr. de Fr. Brosky Zora N. Hurston’s Their eyes were tr. de Andrés Ibañez notas
- Tu t’es montré deux fois nob’ de
m’avoir sauvée dce cabot. Ptit-Four, jpense
pas qut’as vu ses yeux comme moi jles ai
vus. L’avait pas juste l’intention dme
mord’, Ptit-Four. L’avait l’intention dme
tuer raide comme une pierre. Jamais
j’oublierai ses yeux. Rien que dla haine
pure. Me demande d’où y venait ? [295]
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“You was twice noble tuh save me
from dat dawg. Tea Cake, Ah don’t
speck you seen his eyes lak Ah did. He
didn’t aim tuh jus’ bite me, Tea Cake.
He aimed tuh kill me stone dead. Ah’m
never tuh fuhgit dem eyes. He wuzn’t
nothin’ all over but pure hate. Wonder
where he come from?”
—Tú fuiste do vece noble cuando
me salvaste de aquel perro. Tea Cake,
tú no viste sus ojos como yo los vi.
No sólo quería morderme, Tea Cake.
Quería dejarme tiesa en el sitio. No
voy a olvidarme nunca de aquellos
ojos. No era má que odio puro. ¿De
dónde habría salío?, me pregunto.
- Ouais, moi aussi jl’ai vu. C’était terrifiant.
10 “Yeah, Ah did see ’im too. It wuz
Mais j’avais pas dans l’intention frightenin’. Ah didn’t mean tuh
d’accepter sa haine. Fallait que lui meure take his hate neither. He had tuh die
ou moi, l’un des deux. Mon cran d’arrêt a uh me one. [158] Mah switch blade
dit quc’était lui.
said it wuz him.”
- Pauv’ moi, y m’aurait déchiquetée si
t’avais pas été là, mon chou.
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“Po’ me, he’d tore me tuh pieces, if
it wuzn’t fuh you, honey.”
- T’as pas besoin de dire si j’avais pas “You don’t have tuh say, if it wuzn’t
été là, bébé, pasque jsuis là, et jveux qu’tu 20 fuh me, baby, cause Ah’m heah, and then
saches que c’t un homme qu’t’as là. » Ah want yuh tuh know it’s uh man heah.”
[296]
[159]
—Sí, yo también le vi los ojos. Daban
miedo. Y tampoco quería quedarme
con su odio. Tenía que morir uno
de los do, o él o yo. Y la hoja de mi
navaja dijo que él.
—Pobre de mí, me hubiera hecho pedazos,
si no llega a ser por ti, cariño.
—No tienes que decir «si no llega a ser
por ti», porque yo estoy aquí, y quiero que
sepas que el que está a tu lao es un hombre.
[187]
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* slouch 1 intr. stand or move or sit in a drooping ungainly (awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, torpe, desgarbado) fashion. 2 tr. bend one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards (opp. cock 1). 3 intr. droop, hang down loosely.
1 a slouching posture or movement, a stoop. 2 a downward bend of a hat-brim (opp. cock 1).3 sl. an incompetent or slovenly (careless & untidy) worker or operator or performance.
slouch hat a hat with a wide flexible brim.
slouch 1 to sit or stand with a drooping bearing, estar ladeado, bent one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards 2 to walk or move with an awkward slovenly gait 3 to cause (the shoulders) to droop, ir encorvado
4 a drooping carriage 5 [usually used in negative constructions] (informal) an incompetent or slovenly person
example: he’s no slouch at football
slouchy lacking erectness or stiffness (as in form or posture)
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CHAPTER 19
CAPÍTULO I9
Summary
Une fois de plus, Celle-aux-orteils-carrés était And then again Him-with-the-square-toes had
rentrée chez elle. Une fois de plus, elle gone back to his house. He stood once
s’était tapie dans sa maison haute et more and again in his high flat house
plate, sans murs et sans toit, son épée 40 without sides to it and without a roof
sans âme dressée dans sa main. Son pâle with his soulless sword standing upright
cheval blanc avait galopé au-dessus des in his hand. His pale white horse had
eaux et tonné pardessus les terres. Le galloped over waters, and thundered
temps de mourir était passé. Il était over land. The time of dying was over.
temps d’inhumer les morts.
45 It was time to bury the dead.
« Janie, vlà deux jours qu’on stient
dans cette pièce sale et moche, c’est
dtrop. Faut qu’on sorte de cette maison
et de cette ville d’hommes. J’ai jamais
aimé c’t endroit.
- Où qu’on va aller, Ptit-Four ? On
lsait pas.
- Peut-êt’ qu’on peut rtourner dans
le haut dl’État si tu veux.
- Mais écoutez-moi cette femme ! Moi
qui suis sur le point dfaire péter ma culotte
tant jveux rester près d’elle et elle... Mérite
qu’on lui tire dssus avec des punaises !
- De toute manière, jsuis reposé et les
poux ont pris-attrapé trop d’audace par
“Janie, us been in dis dirty,
slouchy* place two days now, and
dat’s too much. Us got tuh git outa dis
50 house and outa dis man’s town. Ah
never did lak round heah.”
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“Where we goin’, Tea Cake? Dat we
don’t know.”
“Maybe, we could go backup de state,
if yuh want tuh go.”
- J’ai jamais dit ça, mais si toi tu... “Ah didn’t say dat, but if dat is whut you—”
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- Naan, j’ai rien dit dpareil. “Naw, Ah ain’t said nothin’ uh de
J’essayais de pas tretenir loin dton kind. Ah wuz tryin’ not tuh keep you
confortab’ plus longtemps que t’en outa yo’ comfortable no longer’n you
avais envie. [297]
wanted tuh stay.”
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- Si jte dérange...
“If Ah’m in yo’ way—”
“Will you lessen at dis woman? Me
’bout tuh bust mah britches tryin’ tuh
70 stay wid her and she heah—she oughta
be shot wid tacks!”
- Bon d’accord, tu dis quoi et “All right then, you name somethin’
on lfra. En tout cas, on perd rien and we’ll do it. We kin give it uh poor
à essayer.
75 man’s trial anyhow.” [160]
“Anyhow Ah done got rested up and
de bed bugs is done got too bold round
X
Y, una vez más, la parca regresó a su
casa. Una vez más se quedó de nuevo en
pie en su casa alta y plana, sin paredes
ni techo, enarbolando con la mano en
alto su espada sin alma. Su pálido caballo
blanco había galopado sobre las
aguas, había retumbado sobre la tierra.
La hora de la muerte había pasado. Era
hora de enterrar a los muertos.
Janie, llevamo ya do días en este sitio
sucio y asqueroso y me parece que
ya es demasiao. Tenemo que irno de esta
casa y de esta ciudá. A mí este sitio nunca
me ha gustao.
—¿Adónde iremo, Tea Cake? No tenemo
dónde.
—Si tú quieres, tal vez podríamo irno al
norte del Estado.
—Yo no decía eso, pero si es lo que tú...
—No, yo no decía ná por el
estilo. Lo que yo no quiero es
que tú estés en un sitio en el
que no estás cómoda.
—Si soy una carga...
—¡Es increíble lo que se le ocurre a
esta mujer! Estoy decidío a romperme la
cabeza con tal de quedarme con ella y
ella... ¡es pa matarla!
—Mu bien, entonce. Di tú lo que quieres y
eso es lo que haremo. De tós modos, no sé yo
qué podemo hacer siendo tan pobres.
—Bueno, pue, yo me he recuperao ya del
cansancio, y ademó veo que la chinche de la
After the hurricane, death is all around Palm
Beach. Two white men with rifles force Tea Cake
to bury corpses. Disgusted with the work and
fearful of the racism around the town (the white
corpses get coffins, but the black corpses are
simply dumped in a ditch and covered with
quicklime), Tea Cake and Janie decide to leave
surreptitiously and return to the Everglades.
Tea Cake and Janie learn that although some of
their friends have died, many have survived,
including Motor Boat, who miraculously stayed
alive during the storm while sleeping in the
abandoned house. Tea Cake works for a while
rebuilding the dike. But about four weeks after
their return, he comes home from work early with
a bad headache. He says that he is hungry, but
when Janie makes him food, he is unable to eat.
At night he wakes up in a choking fit and the
next day gags [vomits] when trying to drink water.
Janie gets Dr. Simmons, a friendly white man who
is a fixture in the muck. He chats amiably with
Tea Cake and hears his story. But afterward, he
pulls Janie aside and tells her that he thinks that
the dog that bit Tea Cake was rabid. He adds
that it is probably too late to save Tea Cake but
that he will order medicine from Palm Beach just
in case.
Tea Cake’s health deteriorates and the rabies
warp his mind, filling him with delusional,
paranoid thoughts. Janie doesn’t tell him about
the doctor’s diagnosis. When she sneaks off to
see if the medicine has arrived, Tea Cake
accuses her of sneaking off to see Mrs. Turner’s
brother, who has just returned to the Everglades.
She mollifies him, telling him that she went to
see the doctor, and they begin to talk lovingly.
But Janie grows afraid when she feels a pistol
hidden under the pillow.
That night, Tea Cake is seized by more choking
attacks. In the morning, Janie says that she is
going to see Dr. Simmons again. Tea Cake gets
angry, and when he goes outside to the
outhouse, Janie checks his pistol. She finds that
it is loaded with three bullets. Instead of
unloading it, she sets it so that it will run through
the three empty chambers before getting to a
bullet, giving her time to act in case he fires at
her.
When Tea Cake returns, he becomes crazier,
accusing Janie of treating him wrongly. Janie
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