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| Original Title: | Az ember tragédiája |
| ISBN: | 9631345335 (ISBN13: 9789631345339) |
Imre Madách
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.21 | 1804 Users | 44 Reviews
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Although considered one of the hallmarks of Hungarian literature, Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man is virtually unknown in the West (or the East for that matter). Imagine a work resembling Milton's Paradise Lost and Goethe's and Marlowe's recounting of the Faust legend. Adam and Eve have been cast out of Paradise. Instead of slinking away as he does in Genesis, Lucifer takes Adam through different periods of history, and even into a Fourierist future in which everyone lives in Phalansteries run by scientists -- and even beyond into the wastes of outer space. Adam always has hope that somewhere there is a future that gives life meaning. Lucifer's role is to constantly dash Adam's hopes into the dust. In the end, Lucifer wafts Adam back to his hut where he lives with Eve outside of Eden; and God puts in a minatory appearance, warning Adam that some knowledge is not appropriate for him. But isn't that why Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit? Madách's work is given me a lot to think about. It is on one hand a dark work, and on the other a splendid one that celebrates the quest of man for meaning in his life.
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| Title | : | The Tragedy of Man |
| Author | : | Imre Madách |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | September 28th 1998 by Corvina Books (first published 1860) |
| Categories | : | European Literature. Hungarian Literature. Classics. Plays. Fiction. Drama. Cultural. Hungary. Literature |
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Ratings: 4.21 From 1804 Users | 44 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books The Tragedy of Man
A Hungarian Paradise Lost. Quite thought-provoking!From a critique at the end of the work by Mihaly Szegedy-Maszak:"The message of Madach [seems to be:] that unqualified faith in any system of ideas is self-destructive. . . . Unless we are content with existing on the level of animals or automata, we must strive to be independent of the ruling opinions of the time and should not fear to enter into the most hostile relationship with the existing order, because fate will never take us from the
Perhaps the greatest poem ever written. Steep in theology, history and philosophy, this beautiful poem is my first book by an Hungarian author. Thanks to my colleague Attila for introducing this piece of priceless literature. The breath and scope of the tale stretches from Alpha to Omega, planet earth to outer space. With God, Lucifer, Adam and Eve as the central characters in the book, To get a taste of the future, Lucifer, Adam and Eve would travel through time to different epochs of history,
evergreen, must reread in every 2 years
Magnificent poetry from Hungarian's most famous 19th century poet, Imre Madach. This is heavy literature is steep in theology, history and philosophy. God, Adam, Satan and Eve are the main characters. After the fall of Adam and Eve when they ate the apple, Satan took Adam on a time travel to visit men's future (our history now) to see what will come to be. Instead of being a bystander, Adam took on important historical figures like a pharaoh in Egypt, a Roman General, a knight crusader, Kepler
This was mentioned in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and because, somewhere hidden in these piles of math books, and papers to grade, and laundry, there is a degree in comparative literature (specializing in long poems no one else has read), I have decided that I simply must read this.
i would advise to read it in hungarian original.
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