{"id":14427,"date":"2016-02-06T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/\/sitestory.dk\/wordpress\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2016-02-06T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:59:46","slug":"spoon-river-antologien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitestory.dk\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/06\/spoon-river-antologien\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoon River Antologien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeg har downloadet Edgar Lee Masters mesterv\u00e6rk, Spoon River Anthology, som gratis e-bog, og nu l\u00e6ser jeg gravskrifter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14428\" src=\"http:\/\/\/\/sitestory.dk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spoon-river.jpg\" alt=\"Spoon River Antologien\" width=\"300\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sitestory.dk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spoon-river.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sitestory.dk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/spoon-river-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Over 200 d\u00f8de personer p\u00e5 kirkeg\u00e5rden i en mindre amerikansk by skriver deres egne gravskrifter og l\u00e6gger ikke fingrene imellem. Det er Edgar Lee Masters mesterv\u00e6rk fra 1915.<\/p>\n<p>Vi snuste til det i gymnasiet, og det var nok derfor, jeg p\u00e5 et tidspunkt k\u00f8bte den danske overs\u00e6ttelse antikvarisk. Jeg har n\u00e6ppe betalt mere end en tier, men husker det ikke.<\/p>\n<p>Faktisk havde jeg helt glemt, at jeg havde bogen, til jeg faldt over den p\u00e5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/1280\" target=\"_blank\">gutenberg.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0som gratis e-bog; f\u00f8rst da huskede jeg.<\/p>\n<p>Ove Brusendorffs overs\u00e6ttelse fra 1935 st\u00e5r stadig fint, men originalsproget er nu engang nummer \u00e9t.<\/p>\n<p>Her en smagspr\u00f8ve,\u00a0<strong>Ollie McGees<\/strong> gravskrift:<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen walking through the village<br \/>\nA Man with downcast eyes and haggard face?<br \/>\nThat is my husband who, by secret cruelty<br \/>\nNever to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;<br \/>\nTill at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth,<br \/>\nAnd with broken pride and shameful humility,<br \/>\nI sank into the grave.<br \/>\nBut what think you gnaws at my husband&#8217;s heart?<br \/>\nThe face of what I was, the face of what he made me!<br \/>\nThese are driving him to the place where I lie.<br \/>\nIn death, therefore, I am avenged.<\/p>\n<p>Hendes mand, <strong>Fletcher McGee<\/strong>, skriver (her i uddrag):<\/p>\n<p>She took my strength by minutes,<br \/>\nShe took my life by hours,<br \/>\nShe drained me like a fevered moon<br \/>\nThat saps the spinning world.<br \/>\nThe days went by like shadows,<br \/>\nThe minutes wheeled like stars.<br \/>\nShe took the pity from my heart,<br \/>\nAnd made it into smiles.<br \/>\n[\u2026]<br \/>\nI beat the windows, shook the bolts.<br \/>\nI hid me in a corner<br \/>\nAnd then she died and haunted me,<br \/>\nAnd hunted me for life.<\/p>\n<p>Masters udstillede de sm\u00e5byer i Illinois, hvor han voksede op. Beboerne ligger alle p\u00e5 Spoon Rivers kirkeg\u00e5rd, h\u00f8j som lav, drukkenbolten, l\u00e6gen, dommeren.<\/p>\n<p>Nag, k\u00e6rlighed, skuffelse, forf\u00e6ngelighed, selvbedrag, sn\u00e6versyn \u2013 alt lyser ud af gravskrifterne. De er s\u00e5 dybt menneskelige og hudl\u00f8se. De d\u00f8de snakker ikke udenom.<\/p>\n<p>Og nu ikke mere snak \u2013 jeg skal videre, rundt p\u00e5 Spoon Rivers kirkeg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>\/Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeg har downloadet Edgar Lee Masters mesterv\u00e6rk, Spoon River Anthology, som gratis e-bog, og nu l\u00e6ser jeg gravskrifter.<\/p>\n<p>\nOver 200 d\u00f8de personer p\u00e5 kirkeg\u00e5rden i en mindre amerikansk by skriver deres egne gravskrifter og l\u00e6gger ikke fingrene imellem. Det er Edgar Lee Masters mesterv\u00e6rk fra 1915. 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