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tr. de Fr. Brosky Zora N. Hurston’s Their eyes were tr. de Andrés Ibañez notas
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CHAPTER 14
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Aux yeux dépaysés de Janie, tout semblait
To Janie’s strange eyes,
immense et neuf dans les Everglades. everything in the Everglades
Immense le lac Okechobee, immenses les was big and new. Big Lake
haricots, immenses la canne à sucre, les Okechobee, big beans, big cane,
herbes hautes, tout. Des plantes qui dans 15 big weeds, big everything.
le haut de l’État avaient de la chance si elles Weeds that did well to grow
vous arrivaient à la taille grimpaient ici waist high up the state were
jusqu’à des huit et souvent dix pieds de eight and often ten feet.tall
haut. Un sol si riche que tout poussait à la down there. Ground so rich that
diable. De la canne à sucre bénévole, qui 20 everything went wild. Volunteer
envahissait le pays. Des routes d’une terre cane just taking the place. Dirt
si riche et si noire qu’un seul kilomètre roads so rich and black that a
aurait fertilisé tout un champ de blé du half mile of it would have
Kansas. De la canne à sucre sauvage qui fertilized a Kansas wheat field.
poussait des deux côtés de la route et vous 25 Wild cane on either side of the
cachait le reste du monde. Et des gens tout
aussi sauvages.
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road hiding the rest of the
world. People wild too.
« La saison ouv’ pas avant fin septemb’ “Season don’t open up till last of
mais fallait arriver à l’avance pour nous 30 September, but we had tuh git heah
trouver une chamb’, expliqua Ptit-Four. ahead uh time tuh git us uh room,” Tea
[231] Dans deux semaines, y aura Cake explained. “Two weeks from now,
si-tellement dmonde par ici qu’y it’ll be so many folks heah dey won’t be
chercheront même plus une chamb’, y lookin’ fuh rooms, dey’ll be ;us’ looking
chercheront juste un endroit où dormir. 35 fuh somewhere tuh sleep. Now we got
Maintenant on a une chance de strouver un uh chance tuh git uh room at de hotel,
lit à l’hôtel, là où y a une baignoire. Tu where dey got uh bath tub. Yuh can’t live
peux pas viv’ dans Ibourbier si tu prends on de muck ’thout yuh take uh bath every
pas un bain chaque jour. C’te boue, elle te day. Do dat muck’ll itch yuh lak ants.
gratte comme une colonne de fourmis. Y a 40 ’Tain’t but one place round heah wid uh
qu’un seul endroit par ici qu’a une
baignoire. Y a jamais assez dchamb’.
bath tub. ’Tain’t nowhere near enough
rooms.”
- Qu’est-ce qu’on va faire dans Icoin ? “Whut we gointuh do round heah?”
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- Le jour, jcueille des haricots. Et “All day Ah’m pickin’ beans. All
la nuit, jgratte ma caisse et jcueille night Ah’m pickin’ mah box and
les gars avec mes dés. Ent’ les dés rollin’ dice. Between de beans and
et les haricots, jpeux pas perd’. de dice Ah can’t lose. Ah’m gone
Jm’en vais tout droit mcueillir un 50 right now tuh pick me uh job uh
boulot chez lmeilleur gars du work wid [123] de best man on de
bourbier. Avant qules aut’ arrivent. muck. Before de rest of ’em gits
On peut toujours strouver du boulot heah. You can always git jobs round
en saison, mais pas avec les types heah in de season, but not wid de
qu’y faut.
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- Quand est-ce qu’ils embauchent,
PtitFour ? Tout le monde semb’ attend’
par ici.
- Exac’. Les gros bonnets ont un certain
temps pour déclarer la saison ouverte,
comme pour n’importe quoi d’aut’. Mon
contremaît’ a pas reçu assez dgraines. Il
en cherche encore quelques boisseaux.
Alors on pourra smett’ à planter.
- Quelques boisseaux ? [232]
“When do de job open up, Tea Cake?
Everybody round here look lak dey
waitin’ too.”
“Dat’s right. De big men haves uh
certain time tuh open de season jus’
lak in everything else. Mah boss-man
didn’t get sufficient seed. He’s out
huntin’ up uh few mo’ bushels. Den
we’se gointuh plantin’.”
“Bushels?”
- Ouais, des boisseaux. On joue pas pour 70 “Yeah, bushels. Dis ain’t no game fuh
quelques sous ici. L’homme pauv’ peut pas pennies. Po’ man ain’t got no business
participer au spectac’. »
at de show.”
Le lendemain, il entra tout
excité dans la chambre.
« Le patron a racheté-payé un aut’ type et
y mveut là-bas au bord du lac. L’a des maisons
pour les premiers arrivés. En route ! »
The very next day he burst into
the room in high excitement.
“Boss done bought out another man and
want me down on de lake. He got houses
fuh de first ones dat git dere. Less go!”
CAPÍTULO 14
En los Everglades, todo era nuevo y
grande para los ojos curiosos de Janie.
Grande el lago Okechobee, grandes las
judías, grande la caña, grande la hierba,
grande cualquier cosa. Plantas que
en el norte del Estado no crecían hasta
más allá de la cintura de un hombre, allí
alcanzaban con frecuencia ocho y hasta
diez pies de altura. El suelo era tan fértil
que todo se volvía salvaje. Las cañas
silvestres se apoderaban del lugar. Carreteras
de tierra tan rica y negra que
media milla hubiera bastado para fertilizar
un campo entero de trigo en
Kansas. Cañas salvajes a ambos lados de
la carretera, ocultando el resto del mundo.
Gente salvaje también.
—La temporá no empieza hasta finale de
septiembre, pero nosotro teníamo que llegar
ante pa encontrá una habitación —explicó
Tea Cake—. Dentro de do semana habrá
por aquí tanta gente que ya no buscarán
habitación, sino un sitio donde dormir nada
má. Ahora tenemo la oportunidá de conseguir
una habitación en el hotel, una habitación
con derecho a baño. No se puede vivir
en la tierra negra sin tomar un buen baño
tós los días. Si no lo haces, la piel te pica
como si tuvieras hormigas. Y por aquí sólo
hay un sitio con bañera. No hay ni con mucho
habitaciones suficientes.
—¿Qué es lo que vamo a hacer aquí?
—Yo estaré tó el día cogiendo judías.
Y por las noches tocando la guitarra y
haciendo rodar los dado. Entre las judías
y los dado no puedo perder. Me voy
ahora mismo a conseguirme un trabajo
con el mejor hombre de la tierra negra.
Ante de que lleguen tós los demá. Aquí
durante la temporá siempre se puede encontrar
trabajo, pero no siempre con la
gente adecuada. [148]
—¿Y cuándo empieza el trabajo, Tea Cake?
Por aquí tó el mundo parece estar también esperando.
—Es verdá. Los encargaos tienen
determinada fecha pa abrir la temporada,
igual que cualquier otra cosa.
Mi jefe no ha conseguío suficiente semilla.
Anda por ahí buscando uno
cuanto bushels má.
—¿Cientos de litros?
—Sí. Aquí se juega a lo grande.
Los pobre no tienen ná que
hacer aquí.
Al día siguiente, entró en la
habitación muy excitado.
—El jefe ha comprao la parte de otro hombre
y quiere que me vaya pa el lago. Tiene casas
pa los primeros que lleguen. ¡Vámono!
Chapter 14
Janie, completely in love with Tea Cake, is
overwhelmed by the rich fertile fields of the
Everglades. Tea Cake is familiar with life in the
muck and immediately gets them settled before
the season’s rush of migrant workers arrives.
He plans to pick beans during the day and play
guitar and roll dice at night. As the season
begins, Tea Cake and Janie live a comfortable
life. They plant beans, Tea Cake teaches Janie
how to shoot a gun, and they go hunting
together. She eventually develops into a better
shot than him.
The season soon gets underway. Poor transients
pour into the muck in droves to farm the land;
eventually, all the houses are taken and people
camp out in the fields. At night, the Everglades
are filled with wild energy as the cheap bars
pulse with music and revelry. Tea Cake’s house
becomes a center of the community, a place
where people hang out and listen to him play
music. At first, Janie stays at home and cooks
glorious meals, but soon Tea Cake gets lonely
and begins cutting work to see her. Janie then
decides to join him in the fields so that they can
be together all day. Working in her overalls and
sitting on the cabin stoop with the migrant
workers, Janie laughs to herself about what the
people in Eatonville would say if they could see
her. She feels bad for the status-obsessed
townspeople who cannot appreciate the folksy
pleasure of sitting and jawing on the porch.
Analysis
Up to this point, the relationship between Janie
and Tea Cake has seemed almost too good to
be true. Chapters 13 and 14, while continuing
to demonstrate that their relationship is a good
experience for Janie, raise some complex
questions about Tea Cake’s character. Their
arrival in the Everglades is a moment of
fulfillment for Janie as she finds herself
surrounded by fertile nature. Overall, her
experience is generally a fulfilling one.
Nevertheless, Tea Cake manipulates her in
subtle ways, raising, once again, the specter of
male domination in her life.
Chapter 13 is marked by Tea Cake’s cruel
absences from Janie. Although Janie accepts
his explanations, it is hard to believe that
someone as intelligent as Tea Cake could be so
careless only a week after his wedding. His
departure to go gambling seems likewise strange
and needlessly risky. Yet after all her suffering
in this chapter, Janie is more in love with Tea
Cake than before; she feels a complete,
powerful, «self-crushing love.» Tea Cake has
become a personification of all that she wants;
her dreams and Tea Cake have become one and
the same. In literary terms, this is a kind of
metonymy, or substitution: Tea Cake has
enabled Janie to begin her quest and, in the
process, has become the goal of her quest.
Tea Cake stokes Janie’s desire by maintaining
his distance from her. The old cliché «absence
makes the heart grow fonder» is applicable; in
more academic language, Janie’s desire is
predicated on a lack of what she wants most.
Tea Cake seems to manipulate this lack to make
Janie love him more. In Chapter 14, he achieves
something neither Logan nor Jody is able to
accomplish: getting Janie to work out of her own
free will. Having already shown her the pain of
separation from him in Chapter 13, Tea Cake
plays on this memory to make her want to work
in the fields. One can also argue, however, that
Tea Cake’s actions are not so manipulative. After
all, part of his attractiveness stems from his wild,
vivacious personality; perhaps his partying and
gambling are simply manifestations of his
character. Similarly, perhaps he is being genuine
when he claims to be lonely during the day;
neither the narrator nor Janie considers his
intentions anything but honest.
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