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Liliom

Chapter 14: Transcriber’s Note
By Ferenc Molnár
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About This Book

A volatile, charismatic outsider struggles with love and insecurity, whose destructive choices fracture his relationship with a devoted partner and jeopardize the child they expect. After a desperate act results in his death, he faces a bureaucratic, dreamlike vision of the afterlife and is permitted a brief return to earth to attempt a redeeming deed for his daughter. The drama alternates grounded scenes and surreal encounters across a prologue and seven scenes, meditating on love and cruelty, failed parenthood, social marginality, and the ambiguous possibility of moral restitution through a small, poignant final gesture.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on images scanned from a copy made available by Cornell University and posted by the Internet Archive at:

archive.org/details/cu31924026943195

These images were supplemented by images scanned from a copy made available by Harvard University and posted by the Internet Archive at:

archive.org/details/­liliomalegendin00glazgoog

The following changes were noted:

  • For consistency, all names in the stage directions have been capitalized.
  • p. 12: I’ll stand for no indecency in my establishment—Added a period to the end of the sentence.
  • p. 29: Which of you wants to stay. [There is no answer.]—Changed the period after “stay” to a question mark.
  • p. 47: The door to the kitchen is up Left and a black-curtained entrance to the dark-room is down Left.—For consistency, changed “dark-room” to “dark room”.
  • p. 49: [with a sweeping gesture that takes in the camera, dark-room and screen]—For consistency, changed “dark-room” to “dark room”.
  • p. 75: FICSUR’S head is quickly withdrawn. MRS. MUSKAT re-enters.—Changed “re-enters” to “reënters”. The hyphenation occurs at the end of a line. Elsewhere in the text the word is printed with a diaeresis.
  • p. 162: THE MAGISTRAT—Changed the character title to “THE MAGISTRATE”.

Alternate spellings such as “irridescence,” “moustache,” “improvization,” and “reënters” have been retained as has the inconsistent spelling of Liliom’s last name (“Zavoczki,” “Zavocki,” and “Zavocky”).