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The main idea of this project is unique: Babelmatrix is a multidimensional-multilingual web anthology, which is displaying parallelly the original and the translated works. This provides the users with an adequate glimps into the culture of other European countries, in which the national literatures play a decisive role. This portal is representing and realizing the European idea of multilinguism, unity in diversity.

Szeptember végén (Hungarian)

Még nyílnak a völgyben a kerti virágok,
Még zöldel a nyárfa az ablak előtt,
De látod amottan a téli világot?
Már hó takará el a bérci tetőt.
Még ifju szivemben a lángsugarú nyár
S még benne virít az egész kikelet,
De íme sötét hajam őszbe vegyűl már,
A tél dere már megüté fejemet.

Elhull a virág, eliramlik az élet...
Űlj, hitvesem, űlj az ölembe ide!
Ki most fejedet kebelemre tevéd le,
Holnap nem omolsz-e sirom fölibe?

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Petőfi Sándor

End of September (English)

Below in the valley the gardens still flower,
The poplar in front of the house is still green
But look at the crest of the snowcovered mountain
Presenting already a wintery scene!

Still young in my heart is the flame-throwing summer
With spring, in its fullness, still lingering there,

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Pasternak Slater, Lydia

Jechać do Lwowa (Polish)

Rodzicom

Jechać do Lwowa. Z którego dworca jechać
do Lwowa, jeżeli nie we śnie, o świcie,
gdy rosa na walizkach i właśnie rodzą się
ekspresy i torpedy. Nagle wyjechać do
Lwowa, w środku nocy, w dzień, we wrześniu
lub w marcu. Jeżeli Lwów istnieje, pod

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Zagajewski, Adam

To Go to Lvov (English)

To My Parents

To go to Lvov. Which station
for Lvov, if not in a dream, at dawn, when dew
gleans on a suitcase, when express
trains and bullet trains are being born. To leave
in haste for Lvov, night or day, in September
or in March. But only if Lvov exist,
if it is to be found within the frontiers and not just

Gorczynska, Renata

Samko Tále: Kniha o cintoríne (Slovak)

Vtedy je najlepšie stať sa spisovateľom, keď prší, lebo vtedy aj tak nezbieram kartóny, lebo vtedy ich sprostý Krkan v Zberni neberie, že sú mokré, ale iným berie, aj keď sú mokré, Krkan sprostý. Iným berie, napríklad tej cigánskej potkanke Angelike Édesovej, tej berie, aj keď má mokré. Ale ja viem, čo je vo veci. To je vo veci, že keď príde potkanka Angelika Édesová, tak napíše papierik, že Hneď prídem, ale hneď nepríde, lebo on sa tam zavrie v Kancelárii s potkankou A

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Kapitáňová, Daniela

Samko Tále: The Book of the Cemetery (English)

The best time to be a writer is when it’s raining because that’s when I can’t collect cardboard anyway because that’s when that idiot Krkan from Recycling won’t take it because he says it’s wet but he will take it from other people even when it’s wet, that idiot Krkan. He takes it from other people like that Gypsy ratwoman Angelika Édesová, and he takes it from her even if hers is wet. But I know what’s going on. What’s going on is that when that ratwoman Angel

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Julia Sherwood