In 1900, Ibsen had a series of strokes that left him unable to write. He managed to live for several more years, but he was not fully present during much of this time. Ibsen died on May 23, 1906. His last words were "To the contrary!" in Norwegian. Considered a literary titan at...
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However, the main subject of the paper is not Ibsen, but Liviu Petrescu and we shall try to determine very important features of his literary activity based on his unusual "ibsenian" interest. In other words, confessions, critical ideas, articles or private journals concerning Ibsen form a ...
Produced by Ted Garvin, Nicole Apostola and David Widger HENRIK IBSEN By Edmund Gosse CONTENTS CHAPTER I: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH CHAPTER II: EARLY INFLUENCES CHAPTER III: LIFE IN BERGEN (1852-57) CHAPTER IV: THE SATIRES (1857-67) CHAPTER V: 1868-75 CHAPTER
Last weekend I wrote two essays: one for each outcome of the election. I wanted a time when my emotions would not mar my writing. If you are reading this one, the outcome did not go the way I hoped it would. In general, Spo-fans are along the same political line as I, so we ...
a female Hamlet. Gabler is actually the character’s maiden name rather than her name by marriage (which is Hedda Tesman); on entitling it this Ibsen wrote: ‘My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father’s daugh...
The winter of 1879-80 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sorrento. There, fourteen years earlier, he had written the last acts of Peer Gynt ; there he now wrote...
Henrik Ibsen advised his readers that if they were fully to understand his work, they should read all of his dramas, from first to last, and live them in their personal experience. But little has been published regarding his early plays or his relationship to the myths he collected from the...
[During the last words, HEDDA has entered by the hall door. HEDDA. [To BRACK, laughing with a touch of scorn.] Tesman is for ever worrying about how people are to make their living. TESMAN. Well you see, dear—we were talking about poor Eilert Lovborg. HEDDA. [Glancing at...
At last—! LOVBORG. Yes, at last. And too late! MRS. ELVSTED. [Looks anxiously at him.] What is too late? LOVBORG. Everything is too late now. It is all over with me. MRS. ELVSTED. Oh no, no—don't say that! LOVBORG. You will say the same when you hear...