O
tell me all about
Anna Livia! I Want to hear all
O
Cuéntamelo todo
sobre Anna Livia! Lo quiero oir todo
Libro primero capítulo 8
Este es el
comienzo del Finnegans Wake:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam´s, from swerve of shore to
bend of bay,brings us by a a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth
Castle and Environs
Lo que viene a serr traducido: "riocorrido, más
allá de Eva y Adán, desde el desvío de la playa al recodo de la bahía, nos trae
por un cómodo vico de regreso de recirculación hasta el Castillo Howth y
alrededores"
Y el siguiente
fragmento es el texto del monólogo leído por Joyce y grabado en París en 1929. Nos va a ser útil
para ilustrar algunos elementos con los que juega Joyce, y que ustedes pueden
seguir en el siguiente enlace que les facilitamos:
AUDICIÓN CON LA VOZ
DE J. JOYCE:
Marcamos en rojo los ríos, los juegos de palabras y las alusiones
al ciclo Osiriaco (cosmogonía egipcia y tradición alquímica adjuntando
ilustraciones del libro alquímico “Splendor Solis” de Salomón Trismosin en el
que sin duda Joyce se inspiró para este monólogo). A continuación aclararemos
algunas de estas marcas.
“Well, you know or don't you kennet or
haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.
Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are
taking root. And
my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at? It saon is late. 'Tis endless now senne eye or erewone last saw Waterhouse's clogh. They took it
asunder, I hurd thum sigh. When will they reassemble it?
O, my back, my back, my bach! I'd want to go to Aches-les-Pains. Pingpong! There's the Belle for
Sexaloitez! And
Concepta de Send-us-pray! Pang! Wring out the
clothes! Wring in the dew! Godavari, vert the showers! And grant
thaya grace! Aman. Will
we spread them here now? Ay, we will. Flip ! Spread on your bank and I'll
spread mine on mine. Flep! It's what I'm doing. Spread ! It's churning chill.
Der went is rising. I'll lay a few
stones on the hostel sheets. A man and his bride embraced between them. Else
I'd have sprinkled and folded them only. And I'll tie my butcher's apron here.
It's suety yet. The strollers will pass it by. Six shifts, ten kerchiefs, nine
to hold to the fire and this for the code, the convent napkins, twelve, one
baby's shawl. Good mother Jossiph knows, she said. Whose head? Mutter snores? Deataceas! Wharnow are alle her childer,
say? In kingdome gone or power to come or gloria be to them farther? Allalivial,
allalluvial! Some
here, more no more, more again lost alla stranger. I've heard tell that same
brooch of the Shannons was married into a family in
Spain. And all the
Dunders de Dunnes in Markland's Vineland beyond Brendan's herring pool takes
number nine in yangsee's hats. And one of Biddy's beads went
bobbing till she rounded up lost histereve with a marigold and a cobbler's
candle in a side strain of a main drain of a manzinahurries off Bachelor's
Walk. But all that's left to the last of the Meaghers in the loup of the years
prefixed and between is one kneebuckle and two hooks in the front. Do you tell
me. that now? I do in troth. Orara por Orbe and poor Las Animas! Ussa, Ulla, we're umbas all! Mezha,
didn't you hear it a deluge of times, ufer and ufer, respund to spond? You
deed, you deed! I need, I need! It's that irrawaddyng I've
stoke in my aars. It all but husheth the lethest zswound. Oronoko ! What's your trouble? Is that the great Finnleader himself in his joakimono on his statue
riding the high horse there forehengist? Father of Otters, it is himself! Yonne there! Isset that?
On Fallareen Common? You're thinking of Astley's Amphitheayter where the bobby
restrained you making sugarstuck pouts to the ghostwhite horse of the Peppers.
Throw the cobwebs from your eyes, woman, and spread your washing proper! It's
well I know your sort of slop. Flap! Ireland sober is
Ireland stiff Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!
Were you lifting your elbow, tell us, glazy cheeks, in Conway's Carrigacurra
canteen? Was I what, hobbledyhips? Flop! Your rere gait's creakorheuman bitts
your butts disagrees. Amn't I up since the damp dawn, marthared mary allacook, with Corrigan's pulse
and varicoarse veins, my pramaxle smashed, Alice Jane in decline and my oneeyed
mongrel twice run over, soaking and bleaching boiler rags, and sweating cold, a
widow like me, for to deck my tennis champion son, the
laundryman with the lavandier flannels? You won your limpopo limp fron the husky hussars when Collars and Cuffs
was heir to the town and your slur gave the stink to Carlow. Holy Scamander, I
sar it again! Near the golden falls. Icis on us! Seints of light! Zezere! Subdue your
noise, you hamble creature! What is it but a blackburry growth or the dwyergray
ass them four old codgers owns. Are you meanam Tarpey and Lyons and Gregory? I
meyne now, thank all, the four of them, and the roar of them, that draves that
stray in the mist and old Johnny MacDougal along with them. Is that the Poolbeg
flasher beyant, pharphar, or a fireboat coasting nyar the Kishtna or a glow I behold within a hedge or my
Garry come back from the Indes? Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We
see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot
I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's
upset. Forgivemequick, I'm
going! Bubye! And you, pluck your watch, forgetmenot. Your evenlode. So save to jurna's end! My sights are swimming thicker on me
by the shadows to this place. I sow home slowly now by own way, moy-valley way.
Towy I too, rathmine.
Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes! And sure he was the quare
old buntz too, Dear Dirty Dumpling, foostherfather of fingalls and dotthergills. Gammer and gaffer we're
all their gangsters. Hadn't he seven dams to wive him? And every dam had her
seven crutches. And every crutch had its seven hues. And each hue had a
differing cry. Sudds for me and supper for you and the doctor's bill for Joe
John. Befor! Bifur! He
married his markets, cheap by foul, I know, like any Etrurian
Catholic Heathen, in
their pinky limony creamy birnies and their turkiss indienne mauves. But at
milkidmass who was the spouse? Then all that was was fair. Tys Elvenland ! Teems of times and happy
returns. The seim anew. Ordovico or viricordo. Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be. Northmen's thing made southfolk's place
but howmulty plurators made eachone in person? Latin me that, my trinity
scholard, out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan! Hircus Civis
Eblanensis! He had
buckgoat paps on him, soft ones for orphans. Ho, Lord ! Twins of
his bosom. Lord save us!
And ho! Hey? What all men. Hot? His tittering daughters of. Whawk?
Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk. Ho! Are you
not gone ahome? What Thom Malone? Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffeying waters of. Ho, talk save us ! My foos won't moos. I feel as old as
yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All Livia's daughtersons. Dark hawks
hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell
me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of?
Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!
James
Joyce
Voy a exponer
algunos ejemplos del proceder de Joyce en esta audición que nos pueden valer
como muestra de cierto goce concentrado y cifrado que afecta al lector en la
medida que paga el esfuerzo de descifrarlo. (Ya explicamos el pun encerrado en
Fielur y Filou!)