Drácula

Kako su ovi zapisi poredani u ovakav slijed, razabrat će se iz njihova čitanja.

How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them.

Uklonjeno je sve nepotrebno,

All needless matters have been eliminated,

kako bi povijest gotovo u neskladu s onim što današnje vjerovanje drži mogućim mogla stajati kao puka činjenica.

so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact.

U njoj nigdje nema izlaganja prošlih zbivanja u kojemu bi pamćenje moglo pogriješiti,

There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err,

jer su svi odabrani zapisi nastali upravo u vrijeme opisanoga,

for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary,

dani s gledišta i u okviru znanja onih koji su ih sastavili.

given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.

Drakula

Dracula

Poglavlje I.

Chapter I.

Dnevnik Jonathana Harkera

Jonathan Harker’s journal

(Vođen stenografijom.)

(Kept in shorthand.)

3. svibnja.

3 May.

Bistritz. —

Bistritz. —

Iz Münchena otputovao u 8.35

Left Munich at 8:35 P.

uvečer,

M.,

1. svibnja,

on 1st May,

a u Beč stigao rano sljedećeg jutra;

arriving at Vienna early next morning;

trebao sam doći u 6.46,

should have arrived at 6:46,

ali vlak je kasnio sat.

but train was an hour late.

Budim-Pešta izgleda kao čudesno mjesto,

Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place,

sudeći po onome što sam nazreo iz vlaka i po ono malo ulica kojima sam prošao.

from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.

Nisam se odvažio udaljiti od postaje,

I feared to go very far from the station,

jer smo stigli s kašnjenjem, a krenuti smo trebali koliko je moguće bliže predviđenom vremenu.

as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

Stekao sam dojam da ostavljamo Zapad za sobom i ulazimo u Istok;

The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East;

najzapadniji od veličanstvenih mostova preko Dunava,

the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube,

koji je ovdje plemenite širine i dubine,

which is here of noble width and depth,

odveo nas je među predanja turske vladavine.

took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.