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ISSN: 1405-6313
lacolmena@uaemex.mx
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de
México
México
Queneau, Raymond
Ejercicios de Estilo
La Colmena, núm. 55, 2007, pp. 83-86
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Toluca, México
Notación
Notation
n the S bus, in the rush tour. A chap pf about 26, felt hat with a cord
instead of a ribbon, neck too long, as if someone's been having a tug-
of-war with it. People getting off. The chap in question gets annoyed
with one of the men tanding next to him. He accuses him of jostling
him every time anyone goes past. A sniveling tone which is meant to
be aggressive. When he sees a vacant seat he throws himself on to it.
Verso libre
autobús
lleno
el corazón
vacío
el cuello
largo
la cinta
plegada
los pies
planos
planos y aplanados
el lugar
libre
yelinesperado encuentro cerca de laestación con sus mü luces apagadas
de ese corazón, dé ese cuello, deesa cinta, de esos pies,
de ese lugar libre
y de ese botón.
Free verse
i he bus
fiill
the heart
empty
the neck
long
the ribbon
plaited
the feet
flat
flat and flattened
the place
vacant
84 o Santiago Mab'as
Raymond Qiieneau
and che unexpected meetig near the station
with its thousand extinghished lights
of that heart, of that neck, of that ribbon, of those feet,
of that vacant place,
and of that button.
Sueño
En eso, me desperté.
Dream
had the impression that everything was misty and nacreous around
me, with multifarious and indistinct apparition, amongst whom
however was one figure that stood out fairly clearly which was that ofa
young man whose too-long neck in itself seemed to proclaim the
character at once cowardly and quarrelsome of the individual. The
ribbon of bis hat had been replaced by a piece of plaited string. Later
he was having an argument with a person whom I couldn't see and
then, as if suddenly afraid, he threwhimself into the shadow of a
corridor.
Metaphorically
-n the centre of the day, tossed among the shoal of traveling sardines
in a coleopter with a big white carapace, a chicken with a long, a peace
abidingone, of their number, and its parlance, moist with protest, was
unfolded upon the airs. Then, attracted by a void, the fledgling
precipitated itself thereunto.
Telegráfico
Telegraphic
-I