{"id":91,"date":"2012-03-15T04:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T04:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gentlemantranslator.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2012-03-15T04:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T04:58:41","slug":"the-violet-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gentlemantranslator.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/15\/the-violet-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Violet, Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M\u00e1rkus.<\/span> You know, dear, that I don’t want that. Just some smaller parts. I would be ecstatic if you would see me perform. I was with poor Sziklay, now I perform theater in the round at the park. I play there through Monday.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> I regret that I have no free time until Tuesday.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rkus.<\/span> Then I will prolong it.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> Do not prolong it, child. Do not prolong it on my account. And now I am very busy. Not another word about your roles. I still have some openings for chorus girls.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rkus<\/span> sadly<\/em>. Chorus girls?<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> Well, what did you think, child, that I was hiring ladies-in-waiting?<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rkus.<\/span> No … but it’s monstrous, that a woman who played \u00c9va should go into the chorus.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> \u00c9va?<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rkus.<\/span> In The Tragedy of Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> That was condensed as well?<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rkus.<\/span> But of course. Into a single act. But with the original music.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> That’s reassuring.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rkus.<\/span> It would be humiliating, to start over again in the chorus.<\/p>\n

Director.<\/span> Hmph, such is life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As I expected, the theatrical allusions caused me some problems. There’s a reference to “K\u0151sz\u00ednh\u00e1z”, “Stone Theater”, which I’m pretty sure is a nickname. (I found out on Wikipedia that a theater in Szolnok is nicknamed that, for example; it replaced a theater that was built of wood.) I ended up translating it as “a real theater, one built of stone”, which spells out the allusion in terms a modern audience can comprehend. The line about “poor Sziklay” is baffling; grammatically, it could be “I was at poor Sziklay’s house”, but that would make no sense in context, or maybe she played a role called “Poor Sziklay” (although I’m not sure that works, grammatically), or it might be an allusion to the poet Szer\u00e9na Sziklay, who died young. I don’t understand what the suffix -nal is doing in that sentence; if I understood the allusion better, I might be able to figure out the grammar, and if I understood the grammar better it might give me a clue to the allusion, but as it is I’m handicapped by my inexperience. Still, at least I can recognize what I’m unsure of, and it’s a small fraction of the text.<\/p>\n

Three pages today, which brings my total up to nine, with sixty-six to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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