Wednesday, March 19, 2008

もっと翻訳練習

ガクトの「自白」(第2段落から)続き

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「『明日はピアノの稽古よ』
『練習しなさい』
太陽の強い差し。ピアノの鍵盤が汗ですべってーー。
時間軸でいえばほんの数秒のことだろう。その間に、膨大な記憶が猛スピードで頭の中を駆け巡っていく。これまで生きてきた瞬間瞬間の記憶が鮮明な映像となって走馬灯のように回り始める。
僕は死ぬんだろうかーー。
そんなことが、僕にはこれまで15回ほどある。

初めて走馬灯が起きたのは7つの時だった。
僕は沖縄の海で溺れた。波に飲まれて、苦しくて、もがいてももがいても、とにかく足が地面につかなくて、頭の上にものすごい勢いで波が動いているのが見えた。ドンドン水中に引っ張られていく。息を吸おうとしても、塩辛い水が口に入ってくるのだけだ。

“You have piano lessons tomorrow, you know.”
“Please practice.”
The fierce sunlight. The piano keyboard is slippery with my sweat…
To speak of it along an ‘axis of time’, I’d say it was only a matter of seconds. And in that interval, huge memories rushed out from my head with ferocious speed. Until that, the memories of all the moments I’d lived were crystal reflections, but then they began to swirl round like a phantasmagoria.
Perhaps I’m dying…
By then, such a thing had happened to me 15 times already.

The first time the phantasmagoria appeared to me was when I was 7.
I drowned in the Okinawan Sea. I was swallowed by the waves, suffering, struggling and struggling, but still my legs wouldn’t reach the ground, and above my head I could see the waves moving with such tremendous, terrible force. Rapidly I was drawn away into the water. I wanted to breathe, but only the saltwater entered my mouth.

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