Vasko Popa (조영필 역)
희망봉
브라이텐 브라이텐바흐를 위하여
남아프리카의 박람회에서
백인 인종주의자들은 전시했다
한 쌍의 흑인 남녀를
그들에게 시켰다 나무를 오르도록
그리고 울부짖도록
네 발로 기어가도록
그리고 풀을 먹도록
나에게는 하나의 선택이 남겨졌습니다 라고
나의 시인 친구는 덧붙인다
내가 나의 하얀 피부를 벗어
그것을 못에 걸든지
아니면
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
for Breyten Breytenbach
At a fair in South Africa
White racists exhibited
A black couple
They made them climb trees
And howl
Crawl on all fours
And eat grass
I was left with a choice
Adds my poet friend
Either I took off my white skin
And hung it on the nail
Or
Note:
Breyten Breytenbach (/ˈbreɪtɛn ˈbʌx/; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. He also holds French citizenship.
On an illegal trip to South Africa in 1975, he was arrested and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for high treason. His work The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist describes aspects of his imprisonment. According to André Brink, Breytenbach was retried in June 1977 on new and fanciful charges that, among other things, he had planned a submarine attack by the Soviet Navy on the prison at Robben Island through the conspiratorial "Okhela Organisation." In the end, the judge found him guilty only of having smuggled letters and poems out of jail for which he was fined $50.
During his imprisonment, Breytenbach wrote the poem, Ballade van ontroue bemindes ("Ballade of Unfaithful Lovers"). Inspired by François Villon's Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis, Breytenbach compared Afrikaner dissidents Peter Blum, Ingrid Jonker, and himself to unfaithful lovers, who had betrayed Afrikaans poetry by taking leave of it.
Released in 1982 as a result of international protests, he returned to Paris and obtained French citizenship.
After free elections toppled the ruling National Party and ended apartheid in 1994, Breytenbach became a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town in the Graduate School of Humanities in January 2000 and is also involved with the Gorée Institute in Dakar (Senegal) and with New York University, where he teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program. (출처: en.wikipedia.org)