About Sinbad
You might be wondering about the five-part series I posted some time ago. It is a translation of Krúdy Gyula's (or Gyula Krúdy's for non-Hungarians and non-Japanese) short story, the fifth in a series of short stories about this character called Sinbad (Szindbád),...
Sinbad nauta – Iter apud mortem – Pars V
Taciti diluculo hiemali ambulabant. Viae niue tectae sunt, raedaeque cum lanternis hebetibus praeteribant. Stationis Orientalis²⁰ horologium languide de specula lucebat, umbrae obscurae in foro niue illustrato praeteruolabant, puellulaque fortiter tenebat Sinbad...
Sinbad nauta – Iter apud mortem – Pars IV
Symphonia canebat, sigarorumque¹³ fumus ueluti nubes uolitabat circum lanternas. Feminae—hic plerumque impudicae, nocturnae conueniebant—festiua laetitia tollebant manibus caltulas, candidosque calceos tenuis puluis operuit. Crinalibus in saltatione solutis pili,...
Sinbad nauta – Iter apud mortem – Pars III
Eo tempore—cum pauper in paupertate pigresceret—inopinate puellam offendit, in loco quodam saltandi flores uendentem, quae quasi fascinata iuxta Sinbad consedit. Ipse binos saltatores semisomnus spectans mulierem non curabat. Serius autem feminae oculos uenustos,...
Sinbad nauta – Iter apud mortem – Pars II
Feminae solum referebant sua, eae solum intererant. Quae didicerat, legerat, aut quae itinera fecerat, quidque eo egerat, ut mulieribus mentiretur, fabularetur. Vel in pulcherrimo mare, maximis sub nubibus atque uelis rubris nihil uidit, nisi in litore lauantem...
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