布莱希特诗选：《劳工读史之问》
Questions From a Worker Who Reads
贝托尔特·布莱希特 （德国 1935）
底比斯城有七门，谁起柱来谁垒瓦？
Who built Thebes of the 7gates ?
穷经皓首韦编绝，唯有帝王留其名。
In the books you will readthe names of kings.
哪个搬砖又砌墙，莫非君王在撸袖？
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?
巴比伦塔倾墟颓，何人几度起楼阁？
And Babylon, many times demolished, Whoraised it up so many times ?
利马满城金黄甲，哪家精雕谁细琢？
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ?
万里长城功成夜，大国工匠散何方？
Where, the evening that theGreat Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
帝国罗马威名赫，何人竖起凯旋柱？
Great Rome is full oftriumphal arches. Who erected them ?
凯撒万里开疆域，哪个白骨垒边塞？
Over whom did the Caesarstriumph ?
雕栏玉砌拜占庭，满城屌丝住宫殿？
Had Byzantium, much praisedin song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?
陆沉亚特兰蒂斯，死到临头仍欺奴。
Even in fabled Atlantis, thenight that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried outfor their slaves.
亚历山大征印度，俊彦一人万人敌？
The young Alexander conqueredIndia.Was he alone ?
凯撒臣服高卢国，没有厨子谁管饭？
Caesar defeated the Gauls.Didhe not even have a cook with him ?
无敌舰队沉大洋，国王悲过征人妻？
Philip of Spain wept when hisarmada went down.Was he the only one to weep ?
七年征战王称帝，百万枯骨把家还？
Frederick the 2nd won the 7Years War.Who else won it ?
丹青页页帝王名，谁为胜者宴酒席？
Every page avictory. Who cooked the feast for the victors ?
人间代代雄主在，何人耕织谁纳税？
Every 10 years a greatman. Who paid the bill ?
经史子集纵读遍，百思其解不得见。
So manyreports. So many questions.
欧根·贝托尔特·弗里德里希·布莱希特（德语：Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht，1898年2月10日－1956年8月14日）德国戏剧家、诗人。他的剧作在世界各地上演。布莱希特创立并置换了叙事戏剧，或曰“辩证戏剧”的观念。贝尔托·布莱希特生于德国巴伐利亚奥格斯堡，年青时曾任剧院编剧和导演，并投身左翼工人运动。1933年后因纳粹党上台而被迫流亡欧洲大陆。1941年经苏联去美国，但战后又在美国遭到反共遭迫害，不得不于1947年返回欧洲，并自次年起定居东柏林。 1956年8月14日布莱希特逝世于柏林。
