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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Hermann Hesse | | German term or phrase: gebrochene Augen | Der Wolf by Hermann Hesse
Mit zerbrochenen Gliedern schleppten sie ihn nach St. Immer hinab. Sie lachten, sie prahlten, sie freuten sich auf Schnaps und Kaffee, sie sangen, sie fluchten. Keiner sah die Schönheit des verschneiten Forstes, noch den Glanz der Hochebene, noch den roten Mond, der über dem Chasseral hing und dessen schwaches Licht in ihren Flintenläufen, in den Schneekristallen und in den **gebrochenen Augen** des erschlagenen Wolfes sich brach.
This is meant as a gift for a dear friend. The English translation is available on Google. I changed a little bit here and there, but it's the last part of the last sentence I'm at issue with. The English translation reads: ...and on the blurred eyes of the dead wolf.
Gebrochene Augen = blurred eyes?? Every time I read it, the 'blurred' hits me in the face. A drunk might have blurred eyes, but Hesse is talking so poetically about 'gebrochene Augen', and there's a completely different feel to it! Does anybody have an idea how to
get it right? It's very important to me. No refs needed.
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| Johanna Timm, PhD
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