Felices los Normales / Happy Are the Normal

Felices los Normales / Happy Are the Normal

The Iowa Review
Volume 2
Issue 2 Spring
1971
Felices los Normales / Happy Are the Normal
Fernando Retamar
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Article 31
for
opportunities
delicate:
mente
to
how
sobrehumanos;
and bebestibles;
comestibles
steps in the translation. But we have
some
of
a
by
as the
problems,
as far
is often
This
is a
our
the
to meet
have
can
go
toward
few
ex
rare
lightly,
in our
timbre
in
forged
taken
tried to compensate
off-normal
slightly
translator
resonance
word
the unusually
We
and
small
tone of ligera
part spiritual
la sonrisa.
de
are
opportunities
approximate
how
rostros
diecisiete
the
pression,
Those
interpretation.
to catch the part physical,
how
for
version.
criticism.
But
it
long way.
Frederic Will
FELICES
Felices
Los
esos
los normales,
no
que
LOS
una
tuvieron
seres
NORMALES
extra?os.
madre
un
loca,
padre
borracho, un hijo delincuente,
Una
Los
casa
en
no
que
ninguna
han
sido
Los que vivieron
parte,
calcinados
llenos
Los
satisfechos,
Los
rintint?n
Los
de
y sus
Los
que
ganan,
flautistas
Los
vendedores
Los
caballeros
Los
hombres
zapatos,
los
los
gordos,
secuaces,
un
por
poco
desconocida,
amor
devorante,
m?s.
con
arc?ngeles
los lindos,
los que
son
los que
c?mo
sombreros,
no,
hasta
queridos
la
por
aqu?,
empu?adura,
por ratones,
acompa?ados
sus
y
compradores,
ligeramente
de
vestidos
los
los delicados,
Los
y un
enfermedad
rostros de la
los diecisiete
sonrisa
Los
una
sobrehumanos,
truenos
y las
sensatos,
mujeres
de
rel?mpagos,
los finos,
los dulces,
los comestibles,
y los bebestibles.
las
el esti?rcol,
piedras.
a los
Pero
los mundos
que den paso
y los sue?os,
que hacen
nos desbaratan
las sinfon?as,
las
Las
ilusiones,
que
palabras
sus madres,
Y nos construyen,
los m?s
locos que
los m?s
borrachos
amables,
Felices
las aves,
Que sus padres y m?s delicuentes
Y m?s
Que
devorados
por
amores
que sus hijos
calcinantes.
les dejen su sitio en el infierno, y basta.
Fernando
Retamar
Criticism
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RETAMAR:
are
Happy
Those
who
HAPPY
the normal,
did
not
those
a
have
ARE
strange
crazy
THE
beings.
a drunken
mother,
NORMAL
father,
a
son,
delinquent
a house
anywhere,
an unknown
disease.
Those who have never been burned up completely
by a devouring
love.
Those who have loved the sixteen faces of a smile and a little
more.
Those full of shoes, archangels with
the satisfied, the fat, the lovely,
the
rintintin
and
those who win,
flutists
sellers
slightly
their
followers,
the
sombreros,
'why
not,
over
here?'
those who are loved to the hilt,
by
accompanied
and their
buyers,
superhuman
rats,
gentlemen.
Men dressed in thunder, women in lightning,
the delicate, the wise, the fine,
the kind, the sweet, the edible and the drinkable.
Happy the birds, the bird shit, the stones.
they open the way to those who make
illusions, symphonies, words that disassemble
Because
and
us
those
put
together,
those more
drunk
more
crazy
than
the world
their mothers,
than their father and more delinquent than their sons
and more devoured by firing loves.
That leave them their place in hell, and enough.
Tr: Arbelaez+Will
and dreams: