Vyacheslav Kupriyanov (Russia)

Duet of Iron 鉄の二重奏

SONG OF ODYSSEUS

                           Vyacheslav Kupriyanov 

                                  For my wife Natalia Rumarchuk

When my ship moors at the shore,

a poem will come ashore with me,

To which before only the sea was listening,

as it was competing with the call of the sirens.

It will have only soft vowel sounds,

That sound like this in pale translation

From the language of roaming to the language of mooring:

I love you with the hoarse cry of the seagulls,

With the scream of the eagles, flying toward the scent of Prometheus' liver,

With a thousand year silence of the sea turtle,

With a click of the cachalot that wants to be a roar,

With a pantomime, executed by the tentacles of the octopus,

Before which all seaweeds stand on end.

I love you with all my body coming from the sea,

With all its rivers, tributaries of the Amazon and the Mississippi,

With all the deserts, considering themselves seas,

You hear their sand sift through my desiccated throat.

I love you with all my heart, lungs and the medulla,

I love you with the earth's crust and the star-studded sky,

With the fall of the waterfalls and conjugation of verbs,

I love you with the invasion of Europe by the Huns,

With the One-Hundred year war and the Mongolian Horde,

With the uprising of Sparta and the Big migration of people,

With Alexander's column and the Tower of Pisa,

With the speed of the Gulf Stream to warm the North Pole.

I love you with the letter of the law of gravity

And the sentence of the death penalty,

To the death penalty through the eternal fall

Into your bottomless Bermuda triangle.

                                                          Translated by Dasha C. Nisula 

オデュッセィアの歌

                                                 ヴェチェスラウ・クプリヤノフ

おれの舟が岸に係留していたとき

ひとつの詩がおれに打ちあがってきた

そのまえは海だけが聴いていたものだ

海の精セイレンの招きと張り合うように

彷徨う言語から舫いの言語へ

このおぼろげな翻訳のように

それはただ母音の響きだけだろう

おまえを愛している 鴎のしゃがれ声で

プロメテゥスの香りのほうへ翔けていく鷲の甲高い声で

海亀の千年の沈黙で

吠えたいマッコウクジラの舌打ちで

上手にパントマイムをするタコの足で

海草という海草が果てしなく茂る前に

おまえを愛している　海からきたおれの体の全てで

全ての川で、アマゾン川やミシシッピー川の支流で

みずから海だと思い込んでいる全ての砂漠で

おまえは砂がおれの喉をひからびさせて動くのを耳にする

おまえを愛している　おれの心の全てで、肺で骨髄で

おまえを愛している　地球の地殻で　星で飾られた空で

滝のたぎりで　動詞の接続で

おまえを愛している　フン族によるヨーロッパ侵入で

百年戦争とモンゴル族の移動で

スパルタの勃興と民族の移住で

アレクサンダーの円柱とピサの斜塔で

北極を温めるメキシコ湾流のスピードで

おまえを愛している 永遠が引力で落下するあいだ

その死刑の文字で　

おまえの深いバーミューダ海域へ

その死刑の文章で

Translation by Mariko Sumikura

Reading by the author is here.

Kupriyanov, Vyacheslav(Russia)

Vyacheslav Glebovich Kupriyanov was born in Novosibirsk in 1939. His first published works were translations of poetry from German (Hölderlin, Novalis, R.M.Rilke, Hoffmannstal, B.Brecht, G.Grass, Enzensberger, Hans Arp, Erich Fried) and English (Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg). Kupriyanov studied technical sciences in the High Navy School in Leningrad (1958 - 1960), and graduated in 1967 from the Moscow Foreign Language Institute (now Linguistic University), section of mathematical linguistics and German (1967). He is a freelance writer, a member of the Moscow Writers Union, and a member of the Serbian Writers Union.

His published works include:

Poetry: "First person", 1981 (Moscow), "Life goes on", 1982 (first free-verse poetry published in Russia after the Second World War); "Homework", 1986; "Echo", 1988, 1989; "Poems", 1994; "The Best Time", 2003, "Ode to time", 2010.

Prose: "Yours Beastly Majesty" (Novel), 2006; "The shoe of Empedokles" (Novel), 1996, 2000, 2013 (Moscow), and short stories (including science-fiction) published in various magazines.

His translated works include:

In English: "In Anyone's Tongue" (London & Boston: Forest Books, 1992)(dual text, Russian and English).

In German: "Moist manuscript" ("Das feuchte Manuskript", Roman), 1991, Alkyon Verlag, "Der Schuh des Empedokles", 1994, 1999; Poetry: "Sober echo", 1986, (LCB-Edition); "Challenge to flight", 1990; "How to become a giraffe"; 1991, 1999; "Monument to the Unknown Coward", (Delp Verlag, 1990); "Eisenzeitlupe", 1996, (awarded first place prize in Südwestfunk-Bestenliste, 1997); »Short Stories of Eurasia«, Alkyon Verlag, 2001, "Mitlesebuch 96", Aphaia-Verlag, 2006, 2012; "The dancing Baer", 2010; "Нельзя/Verboten (Verbidden"), poetry, Russian/German, Pop-Verlag, Ludwigsburg, 2012; "Wilder Westen", Poetry, Pop-Verlag, Ludwigsburg, 2013. "Hard Rock", Poetry, Russian-German, Pop-Verlag, Ludwigsburg, 2014

In Bulgarian: "Unknown Wonder", 1987; "The Oase of Time", 2000.

In Polish: "The Circle of life", 1986.

In Serbian: "Singing lesson", 1987; "Report on an angel" (awarded Library of European Literature Prize, 1988). "The Heaven of earth", "Branko-Radicevic-Prize" - 2006; "Ode to time", 2009; "SONG OF THE WOLF", 2017 (awarded Library of European Atlas of Lyrik", foreword by Feona Sampson):

In Dutch: "The feelers of earth", Leiden, 1988. In Tamil (Sri Lanka): "Modern poems", Colombo, 1988.

In Macedonian: "Singing and thinking lessons", Struga, 1999.

In Indien: "Creativity", poetry, Bengali, Calcutta, 2015;

In Brasilien, "Luminiscencia", Russian - Portuguese, San Paulu, Kalinka, 2016

In Japan, "Duet of Iron", Japanese-English, co-authorized with Yoshikazu Takenishi, Japan Universal Poets Association, 2018,.

Address:121467 Moscow, Elninskaya-Str. 14, cor 2, app. 20. Telephone: 141 83 61, 7 926 615 05 55

Email addresses: viacheslavkupriyanov@yandex.ru, | kuprianov@web.de

In Anyone's Tongue - poems, translated from Russian by Francis R. Jones. Dual Text RUSSIAN/ENGLISH

Web sites for his prose and poetry

ヴェチェスラウ・クプリヤノフ（ロシア）

ヴェチェスラウ・グレボヴィッチ・クプリヤノフは１９３９年にノヴォシビルスクに生まれた。最初の著作は詩の翻訳で、ドイツ語から（ヘルダーリン、ノヴァーリス、Ｒ．Ｍ．リルケ、ホフマンスタール、Ｂ．ブレヒト、Ｇ．グラス、エンゼンスベルガー、ハンス・アルプ、エーリッヒ・フリート）および英語から（ウォルト・ホイットマン、カール・サンドバーグ）であった。クプリヤノフはレニングラードで（１９５８－１９６０）高等海軍学校で工業化学を学び、モスクワ外国語研究所(現在、外国語大学）数理言語学とドイツ語学科を１９６７年に卒業した。彼は自由契約の作家で、モスクワ作家協会会員、シベリア作家協会の会員である。

著作：詩集『First person』", 1981 (モスクワ),『Life goes on』, 1982 (第二次大戦後初めて発表された自由詩）『Homework』, 1986;『Echo』, 1988, 1989;『Poems』 1994; 『THE BEST TIME』, 2003."The dancing Baer", 2010; "Нельзя/Verboten (Verbidden"), poetry, Russian/German, Pop-Verlag, Ludwigsburg, 2012; "Hard Rock", Pop-Verlag, 2014.

散文：『The shoe of Empedokles" (Novel)』, 1996, 2000 (モスクワ), and 短編（ＳＦも含む）雑誌掲載多数。

国外で翻訳出版された作品：英語、ドイツ語、ブルガリア語、ポーランド語、セルビア語、ドイツ語、マケドニア語、日本語ほか