Hamlet

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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

Text Informations

Reference:
Original Publication: “Hamlet”, The Yale Review, vol. 43, n°3, 1954, 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)