The dramatic poem “The Tragedy of Man” (1862) Imre Madache is a unique work not only in Hungarian, but also in world literature. In it, the path of mankind from Adam and Eve to the “last” people on earth, dying under the cooling sun, is artistic. The “human tragedy” is often compared with the “Faust” Goethe: this is required by the conflict and the philosophical content of the work. But there is no talk of borrowing or imitation. The very way of the artistic solution of the grandiose problem that he raises in the poem speaks of the independence of Madache. Adam and Eve, who tasted from the fruit of knowledge, are eager to know what awaits them ahead. And Lucifer is in a hurry to provide them with such an opportunity – having plunged the first people into a hypnotic dream, he leads them in the main stages of future history, hoping to inspire them with the idea of ​​unpromising, meaninglessness of life and struggle. But he is mistaken.
The meaning of the work is not only in the approval of a stoically active life strategy, but also in the assertion of such an important thing …
Author
Madache Imre
Editor
Gusev Yu. P.
Translator
Gusev Yu. P.
Artist
Yakovlev V. Yu.
Publisher
Science, 2011
Series
Literary monuments
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