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Nathaniel Hawthorne war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. Mit seinen oft allegorischen Romanen und Kurzgeschichten erlangte er Weltgeltung. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Juli 1804 – 19. Mai 1864
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„Der christliche Glaube ist eine großartige Kathedrale mit göttlich bebilderten Fenstern. Steht man draußen, sieht man keine himmlische Herrlichkeit, noch kann man sich überhaupt eine vorstellen; steht man in ihr, enthüllt jeder Lichtstrahl eine Harmonie unaussprechlichen Glanzes.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 215
(Original engl.: "Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 33 Pictured Windows. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf33.html

„Es ist ein großer Fehler, versucht man, unsere besten Gedanken in menschliche Sprache zu bringen. Wenn wir in die höheren Regionen des Gefühlsmäßigen und des geistigen Genusses steigen, sind sie nur durch so erhabene Hieroglyphen wie diese hier rings um uns auszudrücken.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 182
(Original engl.: "It is a great mistake to try to put our best thoughts into human language. When we ascend into the higher regions of emotion and spiritual enjoyment, they are only expressible by such grand hieroglyphics as these around us." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 28 The Owl Tower. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf28.html

„Es war ein flüchtiger Blick weit zurück in das arkadische Leben, oder noch weiter zurück in das Goldene Zeitalter, bevor die Menschheit mit Sünde und Kummer beladen und das Vergnügen von jenen Schatten verdunkelt war, die es überhaupt erst plastisch und zum Glück machen.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

-Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 63
(Original engl.: " It was a glimpse far backward into Arcadian life, or, further still, into the Golden Age, before mankind was burdened with sin and sorrow, and before pleasure had been darkened with those shadows that bring it into high relief, and make it happiness." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 9 The Faun and Nymph. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf09.html

„Wie diese Büste in dem Marmorblock, dachte Miriam, so ist unser Einzelschicksal, im Kalk der Zeit eingeschlossen, schon vorhanden. Wir bilden uns ein, daß wir es herausmeißeln; aber seine endgültige Form ist da, vor allem unserem Tun.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 85
(Original engl.: "As these busts in the block of marble," thought Miriam, "so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is prior to all our action." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 13 A Sculptor's Studio. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf13.html

„Zumindest zieht sie vielleicht den Schluß, daß die Sünde - die der Mensch statt des Guten wählte - vom Allwissenden und Allmächtigen so wohltätig gelenkt wurde, daß sie, während unser dunkler Feind uns durch sie zu zerstören suchte, in Wirklichkeit ein höchst wirksames Instrument bei der Erziehung des Verstandes und der Seele wurde.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 302
(Original engl.: "At least, she might conclude that sin - which man chose instead of good - has been so beneficently handled by omniscience and omnipotence, that, whereas our dark enemy sought to destroy us by it, it has really become an instrument most effective in the education of intellect and soul." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 47 The Peasant and Contadina Sculptor's Studio. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf47.html

„Mögen die Männer zittern, die Hand einer Frau zu erlangen, wenn sie nicht zugleich damit auch die ganze Leidenschaft ihres Herzens gewinnen!“

Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der scharlachrote Buchstabe (orig.: The Scarlet Letter, 1850), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Paula Saatmann, Reclam Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-15-009454-2, S. 205
(Original engl.: "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!" - The Scarlet Letter. 1850. Kapitel XV Hester and Pearl. http://www.bartleby.com/83/15.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne Zitate und Sprüche

„Denn kein Mensch kann für längere Zeit sich selbst das eine und der Menge ein anderes Gesicht zeigen, ohne am Ende in Verwirrung zu geraten, welches das echt ist.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

The Scarlet Letter

Zeit , Über Menschen

„Es war der letzte Ausdruck der Kleinmütigkeit einer gebrochenen Seele. Ihm fehlte die Energie, nach dem besseren Schicksal zu greifen, das in seiner Reichweite schien.
Er wiederholte das Wort.
"Allein Hester!"
"Du wirst nicht allein gehen!" flüsterte sie leise zur Antwort.
Damit war alles gesagt.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

The Scarlet Letter

Über Seele , Über Schicksal

„Gott hat mir das Kind gegeben!", schrie sie. "Er gab es mir als Ausgleich für alles, was ihr mir genommen habt! Sie ist meine Freude!- sie ist auch meine Qual! Pearl hält mich in diesem Leben. Und Pearl bestraft mich. Seht ihr nicht, sie ist der Scharlachbuchstabe, imstande nur, geliebt zu werden, und darum millionenfach ausgestattet mit der Macht, mich für meine Sünden zu bestrafen. Ihr werdet sie mir nicht nehmen! Eher sterbe ich!“

Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

The Scarlet Letter

Über Leben , Über Gott , Über Kinder , Freude

„In der Bitterkeit und Qual meines Herzens habe ich gelacht über den Gegensatz zwischen dem, was ich scheine, und dem, was ich bin! Und auch Satan lacht darüber!“

Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

The Scarlet Letter

Herz

„Das stimmt, solche Menschen gibt es", antwortete Herr Dimmesdale. "Doch ohne an naheliegendere Gründe zu denken, wäre es doch möglich, daß sie Schweigen bewahren aus der Veranlagerung ihres Wesens. Oder daß sie - dürfen wir es nicht annehmen?-, schuldig wie sie vielleicht sind, trotzdem am Eifer zu Ehre Gottes und zum Wohle der Menschen festhalten und deshalb zurückschrecken, sich schwarz und dreckig vor den Augen der Menschen zu zeigen, weil sie danach nichts Gutes bewirken, nichts Schlechtes aus der Vergangenheit durch besseren Dienst auslöschen können. So wandeln sie zur eigenen unaussprechlichen Qual unter ihren Mitgeschöpfen und sehen dabei rein aus wie frisch gefallener Schnee, auch wenn ihre Herzen durch Unrecht befleckt und besudelt sind, von dem sie sich selbst nicht befreien können."
"Diese Menschen betrügen sich selbst", sagte Roger Chillingworth mit etwas größerem Nachdruck als gewöhnlich und machte eine kleine Geste mit dem Zeigefinger. "sie fürchten, die Schande auf sich zu nehmen, die ihnen von Rechts wegen zusteht. Ihre Liebe zu den Menschen, ihr Eifer für den Gottesdienst - diese heiligen Triebe mögen oder mögen nicht in ihren Herzen gemeinsam mit den bösen Insassen existieren, denen eigene Schuld die Tür entriegelt hat, so daß sie ihre Höllenbrut fortpflanzen müssen. Doch wenn sie Gott verehren wollen, dann sollen sie ihre unreinen Hände nicht gen Himmel heben! Wenn sie ihren Mitmenschen dienen wollen, dann sollen sie es, indem sie Kraft und Wirklichkeit des Gewissens zeigen und sich zur reuevollen Selbsterniedrigung zwingen! Möchten Sie, daß ich denke, o mein weiser, frommer Freund, ein falscher Schein könne mehr tun, könne besseres tun zur Ehre Gottes und zum Wohle der Menschen, als Gottes eigene Wahrheit? Glauben Sie mir, diese Menschen betrügen sich selbst!“

Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

The Scarlet Letter

Über Glauben , Vergangenheit , Herz , Über Liebe

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Zitate auf Englisch

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XII: The Minister's Vigil

“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch The House of the Seven Gables

Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. I : The Old Pyncheon Family

“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X: The Leech and His Patient

“It is a good lesson — though it may often be a hard one — for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world’s dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)

“It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch The Marble Faun

Volume I, Chapter XXI.
The Marble Faun (1860)

“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Wakefield

"Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)

“Let the black flower blossom as it may!”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIV: Hester and the Physician

“Can the philosopher, big with the inspiration of an idea that is to reform mankind, believe that he is to be beckoned from this sensible existence at the very instant when he is mustering his breath to speak the word of light? Should he perish so, the weary ages must pass away—the world's, whose life sand may fall, drop by drop—before another intellect is prepared to develop the truth that might have been uttered then. But history affords many an example where the most precious spirit… has gone hence… The prophet dies, and the man of torpid heart and sluggish brain lives on. The poet leaves his song half sung, or finishes it, beyond the scope of mortal ears… The painter—as Allston did—leaves half his conception on the canvas to sadden us with its imperfect beauty, and goes to picture forth the whole… in the hues of heaven. But rather such incomplete designs of life will be perfected nowhere. This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II: The Market-Place

“You are my evil spirit… you and the hard course world!”

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as spoken by Owen Warland
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch The Maypole of Merry Mount

"The Maypole of Merry Mount" (1836) from Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)

“There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“As if the butterfly, like the artist, were conscious of something not entirely congenial in the child's nature, it alternately sparkled and grew dim. At length it arose from the small hand of the infant with an airy motion that seemed to bear it upward without an effort, as if the ethereal instincts with which its master's spirit had endowed it impelled this fair vision involuntarily to a higher sphere. Had there been no obstruction, it might have soared into the sky and grown immortal. But its lustre gleamed upon the ceiling; the exquisite texture of its wings brushed against that earthly medium; and a sparkle or two, as of stardust, floated downward and lay glimmering on the carpet.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVII: The Pastor and His Parishioner

“When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.”

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As quoted in "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1851) http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hahm.html by Herman Melville

“Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

December 1853
Notebooks, The English Notebooks (1853 - 1858)

“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch The Wedding Knell

"The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)

“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IX: The Leech

“Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch The House of the Seven Gables

Quelle: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XXI : The Departure

“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.”

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16 March 1854
Notebooks, The English Notebooks (1853 - 1858)

“The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.”

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Twice-Told Tales, Preface http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/tttpf.html (1851)

“Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,—only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.”

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as spoken by Peter Hovenden
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Quelle: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter V: Hester at Her Needle

“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch Der scharlachrote Buchstabe

Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)

“I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne buch The Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

“In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“In a word, the heavy weight upon his spirits kept everything in order, not merely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“America is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? — worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

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Letter to William D. Ticknor (9 January 1855)

“So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it. When we desire life for the attainment of an object, we recognize the frailty of its texture. But, side by side with this sense of insecurity, there is a vital faith in our invulnerability to the shaft of death while engaged in any task that seems assigned by Providence as our proper thing to do, and which the world would have cause to mourn for should we leave it unaccomplished.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“While the lime-burner was struggling with the horror of these thoughts, Ethan Brand rose from the log, and flung open the door of the kiln. The action was in such accordance with the idea in Bertram's mind, that he almost expected to see the Evil One issue forth, red-hot, from the raging furnace.
Hold! hold!" cried he, with a tremulous attempt to laugh; for he was ashamed of his fears, although they overmastered him. "Don't, for mercy's sake, bring out your Devil now!"
"Man!" sternly replied Ethan Brand, "what need have I of the Devil? I have left him behind me, on my track. It is with such half-way sinners as you that he busies himself. Fear not, because I open the door. I do but act by old custom, and am going to trim your fire, like a lime-burner, as I was once."
He stirred the vast coals, thrust in more wood, and bent forward to gaze into the hollow prison-house of the fire, regardless of the fierce glow that reddened his face. The lime-burner sat watching him, and half suspected this strange guest of a purpose, if not to evoke a fiend, at least to plunge into the flames, and thus vanish from the sight of man. Ethan Brand, however, drew quietly back, and closed the door of the kiln.
"I have looked," said he, "into many a human heart that was seven times hotter with sinful passions than yonder furnace is with fire. But I found not there what I sought. No, not the Unpardonable Sin!"”

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"Ethan Brand" (1850)

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