Henrik Ibsen

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Excerpt from Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People the Wild Duck English word which exactly represents the Norwegian Gengangcre, the title of the first play in this volume. It means literally "Again-goers, " spirits that "walk." The French word "Revenants" comes nearer the sense than the English Ghosts, which, however, seems to be the best available equivalent. The three plays contained in this volume stand in a certain historic relation to each other, which I may perhaps indicate without trespassing upon criticism properly so called. The publication of Ghosts brought down upon Ibsen's head a perfect tempest of obloquy. Critics who had hitherto been friendly, turned round and attacked him furiously, while "the general public and its representatives in the press, " says Henrik Jaeger, "raised a howl of reprobation such as had not been heard since the appearance of Love's Comedy" Oddly enough (for one would have imagined him prepared for an outburst of exasperation) Ibsen seems to have been astonished to find his play thus received. If not astonished, he was at any rate indignant, and in shorter time than usual he produced a new play, An Enemy of the People. It is impossible not to recognise the analogy between Dr. Stockmann's position and that of the poet himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.