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Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography

First published in , Robert Ferguson's controversial Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography is perhaps the most irreverent and critical of all the Ibsen biographies. Ferguson provides insight into Ibsen's personal life, his creative work, and the world in which he lived. He paints the portrait of a complex, emotionally tormented artist - not one who is necessarily likable, but one whom we can understand and appreciate.

Using previously unavailable material, including a letter in which Ibsen admits paternity of his illegitimate son, Ferguson chips through the hard enamel of Ibsen's public reputation. He details many of Ibsen's private traumas, such as how his inability to pay for the child's support very nearly landed him in jail, and shows the real impact of these experiences on Ibsen's growth, both as a man and as a playwright. The book clearly demonstrates that Ibsen was one of the great therapeutic artists.

Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography is a deeply researched, wide-ranging account of the man often called the founder of modern drama. At the time of its publication it polarised the critics and stirred up a great deal of debate. Essential read

Henrik Ibsen : A New Biography

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Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography

October 29,
Henrik Ibsen’s last play, When We Dead Awaken, premiered in January in the newly opened National Theater in Kristiania (Oslo). “For Norway…it was,” as Robert Ferguson writes, “a gratifying end to a fifty-year struggle to establish an independent cultural identity.” Five years later Norway gained its independence from the Swedish empire and, although Ibsen was apolitical throughout his life, he was without question a founding father of the nation, not just the father of modern drama.

Statues of Ibsen and his longtime friend and sometime rival Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson still dominate the front plaza of the National Theater. While Bjørnson, the first-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is mostly forgotten, Ibsen’s plays continue to be staged, filmed, read, and reinterpreted for different cultures and eras. This would have made him very happy since “[h]e openly confessed he hoped his writing would last for all eternity.” Ferguson’s biography makes clear that he had a unique gift: “his judicial vision and multiple ambiguities meant that they could be all things to all men, functioning like Rorschach blots in which what stood o

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First published in , Robert Ferguson's controversial Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography is perhaps the most irreverent and critical of all the Ibsen biographies. Ferguson provides insight into Ibsen's personal life, his creative work, and the world in which he lived. He paints the portrait of a complex, emotionally tormented artist not one who is necessarily likable, but one whom we can understand and appreciate. Using previously unavailable material, including a letter in which Ibsen admits paternity of his illegitimate son, Ferguson chips through the hard enamel of Ibsen's public reputation. He details many of Ibsen's private traumas, such as how his inability to pay for the child's support very nearly landed him in jail, and shows the real impact of these experiences on Ibsen's growth, both as a man and as a playwright. The book clearly demonstrates that Ibsen was one of the great therapeutic artists. Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography is a deeply researched, wide-ranging account of the man often called the founder of modern drama. At the time of its publication it polarised the critics and stirred up a great

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