Bereczky Erzsébet (szerk.): Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Essays about the ideas and the directing of the Drama (Budapest, 1985)

József Ruszt: Notes on Putting on the Tragedy

whatever might signify the existence of the other world, an afterlife and God, is, as far as I can see it, just stage machinery, essentially unnecessary. What can then one do with the whole thing?

Still, I think it means a lot to Madách, because he certainly wanted to ask the fundamental questions of human existence and according to the world outlook of the times he can ask the relevant questions only in a „world created by God”, but he asks his questions about the world of Man, and expresses his doubts about this world...

(1983)

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