The call of the text. Intertextual relations of The Rubaiyat and Plak topall e ashik (A limping voluptuary old man)

AuthorNatasha Shuteriqi Porocani
PositionDurres University, Albania
Pages146-158
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6
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o
. 2
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ly
, 2020
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6
Th
e
ca
ll
o
f th
e
t
e
xt
nt
rt
xt
l r
l
t
ns
f
T
he Rubaiya
t
a
n
d
Plak topall e ashik (A limpin
g
voluptuary old man
)
Natas
h
a S
h
uteri
q
i Porocan
i
Durres
U
niversit
y
,
A
lbania
Abs
tr
act
I
f
I
were today living in the beginning of the 20th century
A
nd
I
f
I
had Noli (the translator) in front of me,
I
would make a similar question to that it
was made to
E
cho one century later, a er the French translation o
f
F
au
c
au
lt’
s
P
e
nd
u
l
u
m: H
o
w
c
ould he describe s
p
aces so well
?
1
1
M
y question for Noli would be: How could you transmit to me so accurately the lust
f
ul instincts
?
I
would have stopped in two textual experiences of Noli’s, the translation of TheRubaiyat and
t
he poem of the volume “
A
lbum”, “
A
limping voluptuary old man”, if accidentally in a TV
program
I
wouldn’t have approached the active reception of the lyrics in a typical song from
t
he region o
f
Shkodra “Voluptous old ma
n
2
. This just mixed up the texts and
I
perceived as
a reader the presence of a single text wandering in my thoughts, which a acked on the other
t
exts and further on, it created a fourth or a h text, which,
j
ust like a mathematical dia
g
rame,
o
utlined the eld where the semantic and topical units joined.
Then,
I
take the role of a receptor. T
h
e rece
p
to
r
– in the sense of perceiving the lyrics of the above
m
entioned son
g
, because re
f
errin
g
to
Y
. Chevrel,
th
is activity p
l
aye
d
a very important ro
l
e in my
c
ommunicative on
g
oin
g
as a
p
erceive
r
3
i
n th
e
c
o
rd
i
n
a
t
io
n
of
th
e
r
e
l
a
t
io
n
of
th
e
thr
ee
t
e
xts.
Touched by the eroticism of the texts which gave meaning to a new image perceived on them,
as
I
made them exist within a sin
g
le thou
g
ht and ima
g
e, referrin
g
to Plan
g
aric
a
4
I
created my
1
E
go.
U
m
b
erto, Të t
h
uas
h
gati të njëjtën gjë, Dituria, Tiranë 2006,
p
g 210.
2
V
oluptous old man
(
song`s l
y
rics
)
.
With m
y
limping bat i walk underr wrinkles/M
y
back is curved/
I
am not as i used to be/m
y
wrinkes now can
b
e seen on front/Neither my moustache add any young beauty/but above all, my heart is not old/
Y
ou, 18 year
y
oung girl,/
A
n
y
time
I
meet
y
ou, i shiver/From top to bo om
and for you,
I
sing all night./lalallalalalaja/When
I
see you in the street, beautiful doll/my d ried lips just
b
ecome wet/
I
come a er you, in need/and my heart just stops/
I
am so into you young girl/
Y
ou are not under-
s
tanding/when there is the old man, there is blood,/wh
y
don’t
y
ou love me
?
O
ne day,
I
talked to you/
Y
ou
j
ust mocked at me/
I
thought you smiled at me/and in my heart you sent an
arrow/
I
thought you were coming for me./
A
nother day i saw you on a corner/as a bu er y i followed you, oh/
th
at
d
ay my
h
eart
j
ust exp
l
o
d
e
d
/an
d
you came sa
dl
y on me:/Go away, you crazy o
ld
man/La
l
a
ll
a
l
a
l
a
lj
a
l
a
j
a
l
a
j
When
I
see you in the street, beautiful doll/my dried lips just become wet/
I
come a er you, in need/and my
h
eart
j
ust stops/
I
am so into you young gir
l
/
Y
ou are not un
d
erstan
d
ing/w
h
en t
h
ere is t
h
e o
ld
man, t
h
ere is
bl
oo
d
,/w
h
y
d
on’t you
l
ove me?/
Y
ou young gir
l
are
j
ust
l
i
k
e
h
oney/you
h
ave given your mi
lk
y c
h
ee
k
s/my
b
ones
and esh are mud now/and my cheeks are as old pie now/
Y
our are born for new owers/
I
cannot lie anymore
t
o myself/and my heart just cries now
Ooooo
When
I
see you in the street, beautiful doll/my dried lips just become wet/
I
come a er you, in need/and my
heart
j
ust stops/
I
am so into you young girl/
Y
ou are not understanding/when there is the old man, there is
b
lood,/wh
y
don’t
y
ou love me?
3
Chevrel.
Y
ves, Letërsia e krahasuar, Naimi (Shtë
p
i botuese dhe studio letrare), Tiranë 2016,
p
g 69
.
4
I
n his work
A
s
p
ects of
App
lied Lin
g
uistics
II
, Plangarica addresses the notion of the
I
I
n ratex
t
,
w
h
ic
h
a
ccor
d
ing to
h
is ana
ly
sis is the text of the reader, beyond the text or the infratext, which as such is obtained
i
n relation to the literary text in a process of reading that does not it simply decodes and deconstructs, but at

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