Christoph Janacs | Exile - for Stefan Zweig

for Stefan Zweig

A world traveller,

you always wanted to be

but not an emigrant.

That you became one,

you suspected from the beginning:

As a writer,

you become homeless;

what you have left is nothing but

your own language

and consciousness,

to leave one day,

to disappear.

***

za Stefana Zweiga 

Oduvijek si želio biti

svjetski putnik, 
ali ne emigrant. 

Da si to postao, 

slutio si od početka:

Kao pisac
postaješ beskućnik;
ono što ti je ostalo nije ništa drugo nego
tvoj vlastiti jezik
 i svijest,
otići jednog dana,
nestati.

 
Christoph Janacs, Österreich (Linz 1955.) Prijevod Germain Droogenbroodt-Stanley Barkan iz „der Rede wert“, Edition kelper, Graz 2018.

Prijevod s engleskog Sonja Smolec

Magazine Ithaca 748