Bereczky Erzsébet (szerk.): Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Essays about the ideas and the directing of the Drama (Budapest, 1985)
Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man - full text of the drama - Translated by Joseph Grosz
ADAM A strange command, but stern, it seems to me. EVE Why are these fairer than another tree? Why are these trees forbidden? ADAM Why are the heavens Blue? And why the forest green? It is Enough that they are so. Eve, come with me! (They sit down in a hut.) EVE Lean on my bosom, let me fan your face. (A violent gust. Lucifer appears in the foliage.) ADAM Woman, what’s that! I’ve never heard such sound. As if a strange and hostile power had Attacked our peaceful rest. EVE I am afraid; Even the heavenly tunes are silenced now. ADAM It seems to me I hear them in your breast. EVE When heaven’s glory darkens in the skies I find it, Adam, here inside your eyes. Where else could I detect it but in you Whose ardent longing made my being too? And like the sun which in his flood of light — That he should not stand orphaned in the height — 136
