service of evil who manipulate the
strings of his destiny. I notice that
you separate the two lines, reading
them:
'S'il
m'
a fallu etr.e cruel, c'est
par tendresse. M auuais debut: la
suite sera pire!
Of course, your
version is dramatically just; you
take 'behind' to mean 'in reserve'. "
Gide seemed pleased, and turned
the pages of the book, coming upon
the words:
. . .
is't not perfect conscience
To quit him with this arm?
"How do you like my rendering
the word 'arm,' not in the sense of
hand, but in the sense of weapon
or trick. All translators of Shakes–
peare, even Schlegel, stick to the
literal 'this arm.'
'J
e me ferais scru–
pule de retourner contre lui ses
propres armes?'))
I agreed that turning the king's
own methods upon him might be
in keeping with Hamlet's new
mood after his return from the sea
voyage, but that for me 'this arm'
would be truer to the tenderness
of Hamlet, his scrupulousness, and
the fact that he has never stooped
to using the king's methods, like
spying and
w
forth. "The Hamlet
who would say, 'I shall pay
him
in his own terms' would be a char–
acter out of the Resistance," I ven–
tured, "and no less noble, of course,
for his realism."
Gide had rendered the word 'nun–
nery' by 'couvent.' He told me that
he had suspected the Elizabethan
slang meaning of the term from the
text, but that he could find no one
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