Hamlet

Text in English to type

English Version [1954]

A brief reminiscence at the outset will serve a twofold purpose. It should reduce to the vanishing point the literary claims of this piece of amateur writing, while adding a note of authenticity to the author’s reasons for putting off publication for almost a lifetime.

narrowing disk that grew dimmer and dimmer

to get out the saddle

daydream

ravings

as I chanced to come across them

his mother's gross sensuality into utter disgust of life

are either the causes or the effects of this pervasive melancholy. It alone accounts

to fit both locks

how so exciting a show could ever have been staged about inaction.

In his utter dejection

He indulges in mechanical puns

First publication: The Yale Review, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 336-350, 1954.
This text can be found in 36/08
This text will be published by Michele Cangiani and Claus Thomasberger in 2017.

Hungarian version [1968]

Bevezetésül egy rövid visszaemlékezés, kettős céllal: vegye elejét annak a Feltevésnek, hogy ez az amatőr írás valamely irodalmi igénnyel lép fel, és hangsúlyozza ki, miért halaszotta el a szerző e munkája megjelenését élete alkonyáig.

This text was published in Kortárs, vol. 12, no. 5, 1968.
This text can be found in KPA 42/08, 5.

Text Informations

Reference:
Original Publication: “Hamlet”, The Yale Review, vol. 43, n°3, p. 336-350 KPA:

• 36/08 (copy the original)
• 22/09 (Notes – Hamlet, 1947-1954)
• 36/07 (Draft article – “Hamlet”, n. d)
• 42/08 (“Hamlet” in Hungarian, copy of original and typed draft)