A Commentary On The Works Of Henrik Ibsen

Excerpt from A Commentary on the Writings of Henrik Ibsen IN reading consecutively the whole series of Ih sen's dramas, one is apt to be seized with a kind of philosophic despair. The more radically you think of the problems of human existence, the more deeply you seek to penetrate them, the more ln soluble they seem to become. Of course I am aware that any final solution, even if possible, would not be desirable. It would be a calamity. Humanity would stagnate, grow torpid and indo lent; and its glorious evolution would be arrested, if each new generation were not confronted with urgent riddles, both abstract and concrete, clamour ing for solution. There is, 'however, no danger of our incurring degeneration and decay by guessing, once for all, the riddle of the Sphinx, and witness ing its plunge into the abysmal void. It is an evidence of our spiritual vitality that we have no. 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.

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This critical study of the existing Peer Gynt texts, with the exception of {sect}{sect} 140, 141 and a few notes added here and there in the text, was written in the spring of 1914 and even com posed down to {sect} 104. It was to have been published in the Recueil de la Faculte de Philo sophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Gand in the September of that year, contemporaneou.