VIẾT MỖI NGÀY / MAY 05, 2018
The human face disappeared and also its divine image. In the classical world a slave was called aprosopos, 'faceless'; litteraly, one who cannot to be seen. The Bolsheviks gloried in facelessness. [Mặt người biến mất và hình ảnh thánh thiện của nó cũng mất theo. Cổ xưa, kẻ nô lệ bị gọi là aprosopos, 'không mặt'; kẻ không thể bị nhìn thấy. Người CS hãnh diện trong "không mặt".]
Nói cho cùng, đó là thời "không
mặt". Như một hình ảnh khủng khiếp của Anna Akhmatova, về Cách Mạng:
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Around the grave where we buried the sun. MANDELSTAM
in Tsarskoye Selo. A wind, reminiscent or prophetic, mutters:
Carriages toppled from bridges, The whole funereal city swam On a blind assignation Down the Neva or against it — Only away, away from its graves. All its arches were throbbing black molars, The Summer Garden's vane was crowing Thinly, a bright moon turned a colder Silver over the silver age. Since, along all roads and Towards all thresholds, slowly A shadow advanced, the wind Was ripping posters off the Walls, smoke whirled in cossack Dances on the roofs, Lilac breathed a graveyard smell, and The city, demented and dostoyevsky, Wrapped itself in its fog. Peter, old genius, old assassin, Stared again out of blankness, Beat an execution drum ... And always, something not thunder Under the profligate frost, a rumble Of war before it began. But then it was heard so faintly It scarcely touched the ear, as flakes to The Neva's drifts it drowned. As though, in night's terrible mirror Man, raving, denied his image And tried to disappear, — While along the embankment of history, Not the calendar — the existing Twentieth century drew near.
Through the Cameron gallery, To the icy mysterious park, Where the waterfalls are silent, Where I must make all nine glad As once I was dear to you. Beyond the park, beyond the island, Can it be that our eyes won't Meet with their dear former gaze?
Won't you really ever whisper To me again that word which kills death
And is my life's one clue? ----------------------
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