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tr. de Fr. Brosky Zora N. Hurston’s Their eyes were tr. de Andrés Ibañez notas
planté de palmiers avant de se demander si palm-lined walk before she had a
elle était en sécurité. Cet homme étrange thought for her safety. Maybe this
avait peut-être une idée derrière la tête ! strange man was up to something!
Mais ce n’était pas le moment de montrer But it was no place to show her fear
[180] qu’elle avait peur, là dans l’obscurité, 5 there in the darkness between the
à michemin entre le magasin et la maison. house and the store. He had hold of
Et il lui tenait le bras. L’instant d’après, her arm too. Then in a moment it was
c’était fini. Ptit-Four n’était pas étrange. gone. Tea Cake wasn’t strange.
Elle avait l’impression de l’avoir connu Seemed as if she had known him all
toute sa vie. Voyez comme elle avait été 10 her life. Look how she had been able
capable de lui parler dès le début ! Il inclina
son chapeau devant la porte et disparut
après un bref bonsoir.
to talk with him right off! He tipped
his hat [94] at the door and was off
with the briefest good night.
de palmeras cuando Janie empezó de pronto
a pensar en su seguridad. ¡Tal vez aquel
extraño quisiera algo de ella! Pero allí, en
la oscuridad, a medio camino de la casa y
de la tienda, no era lugar para demostrar
miedo. Además, él la había cogido del brazo.
Y al momento el miedo había desaparecido.
Tea Cake no era un extraño. Parecía que
lo conociese de toda la vida. No hacía falta
sino fijarse en la facilidad con que ella se había
puesto a charlar con él. Al llegar ante la
puerta, él se llevó la mano al sombrero y se
despidió con un escueto buenas noches.
Elle s’assit sur la véranda et 15 So she sat on the porch and watched
regarda la lune se lever. Son fluide the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was
ambré inonda bientôt la terre et apaisa drenching the earth, and quenching the
la soif de la journée. [181]
thirst of the day. [95]
Janie se sentó en el porche y miró cómo
salía la luna. Su líquido ambarino empezó
a empapar enseguida la tierra y a mitigar
la sed del día. [118]
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CHAPTER 11
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Janie avait envie de questionner Hezekiah Janie wanted to ask Hezekiah about
sur Ptit-Four, mais elle craignait qu’il ne se Tea Cake, but she was afraid he might
méprenne et croie qu’elle s’intéressait à lui. misunderstand her and think she was
Et pour commencer, il avait l’air trop jeune interested. In the first place he looked
pour elle. Devait avoir dans les vingtcinq ans, 35 too young for her. Must be around
et elle, elle en avait bientôt quarante. Et puis twenty-five and here she was around
il n’avait pas l’air de posséder grand-chose. forty. Then again he didn’t look like he
Peut-être qu’il traînaillait dans le coin pour had too much. Maybe he was hanging
se mettre bien avec elle et la dépouiller de around to get in with her and strip her
tout. Autant ne plus jamais le revoir. C’était 40 of all that she had. Just as well if she
probablement le genre d’homme à vivre avec
différentes femmes sans jamais se marier. De
fait, elle décida de le traiter avec tant de
froideur, si jamais il remettait le pied au
magasin, qu’il ne reviendrait certainement
plus vadrouiller dans le coin.
never saw him again. He was probably
the kind of man who lived with various
women but never married. Fact is, she
decided to treat him so cold if he ever
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to come hanging around there again.
Il attendit exactement une semaine avant He waited a week exactly to come
de revenir s’offrir aux rebuffades de Janie. back for Janie’s snub. It was early in the
On était en début d’après-midi, elle était [183] 50 afternoon and she and Hezekiah were
seule avec Hezekiah. Elle entendit quelqu’un alone. She heard somebody humming
fredonner un air comme s’il cherchait le ton like they were feeling for pitch and
juste et elle se tourna vers la porte. Ptit-Four looked towards the door. Tea Cake stood
s’y trouvait, qui faisait semblant d’accorder there mimicking the tuning of a guitar.
une guitare. I1 faisait la grimace et s’achar-
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nait sur les chevilles d’un instrument imaginaire
of his imaginary instrument watching her
tout en l’observant du coin de l’oeil. La out of the corner of his eye with that
même blague secrète jouait sur son visage. secret joke playing over his face. Finally
En fin de compte, elle sourit et il chanta un she smiled and he sung middle C, put
do, mit la guitare sous son bras et se dirigea 60 his guitar under his arm and walked on
vers elle.
back to where she was.
‘Soir M’sieur-dame. Jme suis dit quvous “Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might
aimeriez écouter un peu dmusique ce soir, lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ali
et donc j’ai apporté ma caisse.
65 brought long mah box.” [96]
- Louf-dingue ! » commenta Janie,
rayonnante de lumière.
“Crazy thing!” Janie commented,
beaming out with light.
Il accepta le compliment avec un sourire 70 He acknowledged the compliment
et s’assit sur une caisse. « Quelqu’un veut with a smile and sat down on a box.
prend’ un Coca-Cola avec moi ?
“Anybody have uh Coca-Cola wid me?”
- Jviens d’en boire un, fit Janie, temporisant
avec sa conscience.
“Ah just had one,” Janie temporized
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CAPÍTULO 11
Janie deseaba interrogar a Hezekiah respecto
a Tea Cake, pero temía que pudiera
malinterpretarla y pensar que estaba interesada
por él. En primer lugar, parecía demasiado
joven para ella. Debía de rondar los veinticinco
años y ella estaba ahora cerca de los cuarenta.
Además no tenía aspecto de tener mucho
dinero. Tal vez la estaba rondando para
congraciarse con ella y despojarla de todo lo
que tenía. Sería mucho mejor que no volviera
a verlo. Probablemente era el tipo de hombre
que vive con varias mujeres pero nunca se
casa. De hecho, Janie decidió que si volvía a
aparecer por la tienda lo trataría con tanta frialdad
que a buen seguro no le quedarían ganas
de volver a rondar por allí.
Él esperó una semana justa para volver
en busca del rechazo de Janie. Fue
a primera hora de la tarde y Hezekiah
y ella estaban solos. Janie oyó a alguien
que canturreaba fuera y se asomó a mirar.
Allí estaba Tea Cake imitando el afinado
de una guitarra. Fruncía el ceño y
apretaba las clavijas de su imaginario
instrumento mientras la miraba a ella
por el rabillo del ojo y su rostro esbozaba
una sonrisa cómplice. Finalmente,
ella sonrió y él entonó el do mayor, se
colocó la guitarra bajo el brazo y se dirigió
hacia donde estaba ella.
—Buena, amigos. He pensao que os gustaría
oí un poco de música esta tarde y por
eso he traío mi guitarra.
—¡Qué loco está usté! —dijo
Janie radiante.
Él aceptó el cumplido con una sonrisa y se
sentó en una caja.
—¿Quién se toma una Coca-cola conmigo?
—Yo acabo de tomarme una —contemporizó
Janie con su conciencia.
Chapters 11–12
Summary
Chapter 11
Tea Cake doesn’t come back for a week, and
Janie, thinking that he is taking advantage
of her wealth, decides to be rude to him when
he shows up. But when he finally comes by,
his fanciful joking—he pretends to play an
imaginary guitar—immediately makes Janie
smile. They flirt and play checkers again, and
then Tea Cake walks Janie home. They sit
on her porch and talk for hours, eating cake
and drinking fresh lemonade. As late as it is,
Tea Cake proposes that they go fishing. They
stay out the rest of the night at the lake, and
in the morning, Janie has to sneak Tea Cake
out of town to avoid gossip. She loves the
impetuous adventure of the whole evening.
The next day, Hezekiah tells Janie that Tea Cake
is too low for a woman like her; Janie, however,
doesn’t care. Tea Cake returns that night and
they eat a dinner of fresh fish. Afterward, Janie
falls asleep in Tea Cake’s lap and wakes up to
find him brushing her hair. They talk for a while,
and Tea Cake says that he fears that Janie thinks
that he is a scoundrel. Janie tells him that she
likes him, but as a good friend not a lover.
Crushed, Tea Cake says that he feels more
strongly about her than she apparently does
about him. Janie doesn’t believe him, thinking
that he can’t possibly be attracted to someone
so much older than him. She tells him that he
will feel different in the morning. Tea Cake leaves
abruptly.
The next day, Janie anxiously frets about Tea
Cake, who doesn’t return. The day after that,
however, he wakes her up by knocking on her
door. He says that he has to leave for work but
that he wanted to let her know that his feelings
for her are real. That night, Janie finds Tea Cake
waiting for her in her hammock. They eat dinner
and he spends the night. The next morning, he
leaves. Janie is again filled with desperate fears
that Tea Cake has simply taken advantage of
her. But he returns after three days, driving a
beat-up car, and says that he wants to make their
relationship public; he bought the car because
he wants to take her to the big town picnic.
snub v. 1 rebuff or humiliate with sharp words or a
marked lack of cordiality. Desdain 2 check the
movement of (a boat, horse, etc.) esp. by a rope
wound round a post etc.
- Faudra rcommencer dpuis ldébut, Mis’
Starks.
“It’ll hafter be done all over agin,
Mis’ Starks.”
—Pue va a tené que tomarse otra, señora
Starks. [119]
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