

Это стихи позднего Хикмета, простые и ясные, грустные, но в то же время светлые, в которых воспоминания о далёкой родине, долгие годы не принимавшей поэта-коммуниста, о молодости, о друзьях, свободно перемажаются с описанием одинокой прогулки в заснеженном ночном лесу, в воспоминаниях о былых годах. Поэта-голубоглазого великана, вечно юного мечтателя с ржаными волосами, сына турецкой земли, который мечтал, чтобы его похоронили в родной Анатолии под платановым деревом... Однако судьба распорядилась так, что Назым Хикмет был похоронен в приютившей его на долгие годы Москве, на Новодевичьем кладбище...

Zülfü Livaneli (b. 1946 in the little town of Ilgın, near Konya, in the central part of the South-Eastern Turkey) is a prominent Turkish folk musician (singer & composer), writer, dramaturgist, publicist, movie director and aslo a left-wing liberal politician. His collaborations with such remarkable Greek artists as composer Mikis Theodorakis and singer Maria Farantouri served a lot to reestablish mutual reconciliation and friendship between Turkish and Greek nations. His songs, which are firmly based on Turkish folk music, are still very popular among young listeners as well as among the older ones, bringing together the generations by its lyrical force and beauty. He has been a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1996.
'Karlı Kayın Ormanında' ('In the snowy night woods') is maybe Livaneli's most famous and much loved 'anthem-like' cult 'lefty' song. He himself composed the touching melancholic music that really perfectly suits this song, while its lyrics have been taken from some four stanzas of the late masterpiece by the great Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet. It is a poem called 'Karlı Kayın Ormanı', which Hikmet, who said he'd liked to be buried just under an Anatolyan plant tree, who had been accused as a 'traitor of the country' for his communist views in his beloved homeland, had written in his exile in USSR, in the small 'writers' village' Peredelkino near Moscow on 14 March 1956. This poem expresses so bright and clear the deep aching nostalgy of the exiled 'blue-eyed giant' poet, the nostalgy for his native land and the grief of his far lost youth, that had passed a long time ago... The only thing that remained are just poet's memories.
Watch Zülfü Livaneli singing 'Karlı Kayın Ormanında' in a concert, with some documentary shots of Nazim Hikmet on the stage's screen, which illustrate the lyrics:
Вот те самые четыре строфы, которые исполняет Ливанели в одноименной песне: (после турецкого оригинала приводится стихотворный перевод на русский язык, выполненный М. Павловой)
The four stanzas from this poem of Hikmet, that sings Livaneli, are: (cf. the english translation under original text)
The beeches deep in snow,
I walk the dark woods
In sorrow, sorrow.
Your hand, where is your hand?
My country or the stars
Or my youth, what's farthest?
A window in the beech forest
Glows yellow-warm.
What if, as I pass by,
Someone calls me to come in
And I come in and bow deeply,
Greeting those inside the house.
I left my budding rose
In my city of seven hills*.
There is no shame in dreading death
Or thoughts of dying
(* - İstanbul/Стамбул)






