Tableau de mon ami Georges Millet

SOIF

Je suis resté avide en un beau jour d’été
De toi, onde argentée d’un ruisseau interdit.
Il y a bien longtemps.
Chacun de mes sentiers de soleil, de beauté
S’illumine à présent. Le bonheur m’a souri.
Ma soif boit maintenant à tant d’autres fontaines,
Mais je ne suis en paix nulle part, car jamais
Ne m’a quitté le feu de cette soif ancienne.

1920
(Traduction française : Jean-Marc Bordier)

Ivo Andrić (1892 – 1975) est un écrivain yougoslave d’origine croate, né en Bosnie-Herzégovine ; état sous domination de l’Empire autro-hongrois. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il élira domicile à Belgrade et prendra la nationalité serbe. Il sera membre de l’Académie serbe des sciences et des arts et en 1961, il recevra le prix Nobel de littérature…

THIRSTY

I stayed greedy on a beautiful summer’s day
From you, silver wave of a forbidden stream.
A long time ago.
Each of my paths of sunshine, beauty
Now lights up. Happiness smiled at me.
My thirst now drinks from so many other fountains,
But I’m not at peace anywhere, because never
Has not left me the fire of this ancient thirst.

Ivo Andrić (1892 – 1975) is a Yugoslav writer of Croatian origin, born in Bosnia and Herzegovina; a state under the domination of the Auto-Hungarian Empire. After the Second World War, he took up residence in Belgrade and became a Serbian national. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and in 1961 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...

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THIRST

I remained desirous of you on a summer’s day,
O! Silver water, from someone else’s spring.
That was a long time ago.
My each path is illuminated today
By sun and beauty. Happiness met me.
From a hundred wells my thirst is now sated
Yet, peace I could not find anywhere, for
The flames of the first thirst have never abated.

Translation by: Ljiljana Parović