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ISBN-13: | 9780300208818 |
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Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Publication date: | 04/02/2019 |
Pages: | 704 |
Sales rank: | 1,113,773 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.40(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Foreword x
Prologue 1
I Skien 7
The House of Ibsen
The Fall
The puppet-master
Venstøp
Trying your luck
II Grimstad 23
A young man goes ashore
In the night
The steadfast and true
The spirit of 1848
'Scandinavians Awake!'
The art of becoming a writer
A stroll on Kapitelbjerget
III Christiania 57
The Vika boy
Student and writer
The generation of 1848
Ha!
Poverty and success
The Man
Summer with Oscar
The prisoner of Akershus
A fortuitous encounter
IV Bergen 85
The city by the sea
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
From Bergen to the world
The new European theatre
The director
Impish fun on St John's Night
'Flowers of the Field and Potted Plants'
The big let-down
Lying to Blytt
The feast in Bergen
The eagle
Cousin Napoleon
Last dance with Olaf Liljekrans
'Get me a publisher!'
V Christiania 127
Master of Møllergaten
A dreadful burden
A nation's warrior
A 'Vein of silver running through a mountain'
'Up, get up Ibsen!'
Art and commerce
Freedom of art, obligations of the state
'No arse and no chest'
'Damn that Dutchman!"
Scandinavianists and nationalists
Towards the final curtain
Bankrupt
On the heights
Air and love
Either/or
The pretender
Out, leave, go
VI Rome 189
Over the Dybbøl ramparts
The 'Scandinavian
Summer in Genzano
Dreamland
Il Cappellone
'You won't bloody well die'
The revelation
The scorpions sting
Henrik Halfbeard
A state-appointed satirist
A new working day
An unprincipled scoundrel
The wad of cotton wool
'Hey, Jacob Shoemaker!'
The buck ride
The minds silver veins
'My book is poetry'
The end of a dream
VII Dresden 251
Silence
Changing of the guards
'Something green in the buttonhole'
The guest of the khedive
Pans 1869
Steensgaard and company
'Du trittst auf deine Hose!'
Letter in rhyme to Fru Heiberg
The revolt of the human spirit
The spiritual aristocracy
'I must, I must'
Poetry and lies
'You provoke the Danes …'
The European
A horseman rides
The World's Exhibition in Vienna
Love and rights
The Third Kingdom
'Cowpats, Norwegian Norwegianness and smug self-satisfaction!'
Norway 1874
The break
VIII Munich 355
Life below the Alps
The Mountain King revisited
Among artists and crocodiles
Like a skald at the foot of his prince
Late summer in Tyrol
The long winter
Laurel wreaths and new leather gloves
Pillar or pillory?
Laura Kieler's marriage
IX Rome - Munich - Rome 391
Scandal among the Scandinavians
Intermezzo in Munich
Where did Nora spring from?
The death of the lark
Portrait of Ibsen
Saturday evening at the Lies
'I never drink tea'
A 'farrago of syphilis and filth'
Society's silver veins
For the businessmen and their wives
An Enemy of the People
First meetings
Lindberg's stroke of genius
'In the event of an accident …'
Reunion with Bjørnson
The dark loft
Norway 1885
Face to face
The rage of resignation
X Munich 489
'Dieser Platz ist dem Herrn Doktor Ibsen vorbehalten!'
Home and away
The white horses
Directing by post
A new spring in Germany
Der Wassermann
The poet and the ladies
The angriest man in Europe
Lady of the fjord
The little love
Emilie and Helene
Slippers and pistols
The death of beauty
'Too far from Piccadilly'
Théâtre Libre
Europe - and beyond
A diva at the end of the tour
XI Kristiania 561
Imagine being frozen
Hildur and Hamsun
The loss of a son
The tower
A Frenchman in Kristiania
The law of change
Ibsen's body
Incipient madness
Henrik Ibsen superstar
Footsteps from, the first floor
The poetry of impotence
A university chair for Sigurd
Pride and papier-mâché
The man and the mask
Resurrection day
The sphinx's silver veins
XII Arbins Gate 637
Can Ibsen die?
The mask
Afterword and Acknowledgements 647
Archives and Abbreviations 650
Notes 652
Bibliography 670
Index 677