/lit/ - Literature

>>20133956
are you referring to this?

This weeks read: Imre Madach's Tragedy of Man.

I discovered this work about three months ago and have read it more than half a dozen times and in three translations. In my opinion it beats out Milton's Paradise Lost in its exactness of satire, it's originality on an old theme (the fall of man), and its overall brevity of the subject concerned.

I think any regular of /lit/ will find something in it that they like. Lucifer's speeches and criticisms cut deeply and will appeal to any leaning agnostic. Adams persistent disillusionment and yet renewed determinism will appeal to any youth seeking meaning. Philosophy lovers will enjoy the Hegelian set-up of each scene and revel in the Kierkegaardian irony of the ending. And general Christian's will enjoy what is a well told and original piece of theological fiction.

The original language is Hungarian, which you are welcome to read.

http://mek.oszk.hu/00800/00849/

I recommend George Szirtes's translation, but there are plenty of others to choose from:

Szirtes: http://mek.oszk.hu/00900/00918/
Horne: http://mek.oszk.hu/00900/00915/
MacLeod: http://mek.oszk.hu/00900/00917/
Tomschey: http://mek.oszk.hu/00800/00876/
Loew: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5h99262t&view=1up&seq=9

Or, like any book club feature, you can watch the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuN8QJDJoz8

It's about a 3-4 hr read. Post favorite passages, criticisms, general thoughts, or whatever regarding this piece when finished. I'll be here to post or respond for about one more hour, at which point my wife gets home and we eat dinner. I'll be back next on Friday evening, where I'll either bump the thread or start it anew if it's deleted.

>>13317635

A man far ahead of his time.

>Life’s an ocean, roaring, tidal, every breaker bears a world, one flung upward, one dragged downward, who cares which way they are hurled? - you fear now for the individual engulfed by masses, then you feel for millions of vanquished subjects ground under the tyrants heel. You fear for poetry the one day, the state of science ruins the next, lock the waves up in your system, bind the breakers in a text. Struggle as you will, grow weary, water’s all you stand to gain, the roaring splendor of the ocean laughs and thunders with disdain. Let it thunder, life will govern all the strands of her domain. Nothing’s lost, however many battles she may fight. The years pass and leave her ever youthful: her siren voice attends your ears.

Can someone give me an ISBN of a good English translation?

Just finished this and it became my favourite. It is miles ahead of Paradise Lost and criminally underread? Why is that? Considering how many people suck off Nietzsche, this is as nietzschean as it gets.

Probably this play.