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Title: Brand (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Hill, Henrik Johan Ibsen ISBN: 0-14-044676-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Patience hardens
Comment: This is unmistakeably Hill's _Brand_: the technical grace of his Englishing of Ibsen shows an acute awareness of the responsibility of the translator to both the original text and the language into which it is to be translated. Hill's translation enriches not only the English language but the ability of English (and non-Norwegian) speakers to appreciate Ibsen's brooding, symbolically charged drama of the challenge of faith in the midst of common life. Is Brand's fidelity to his "dear Christ hurt with thorns" obdurate or obstinate? In this play, the repudiation of social morality in the name of higher things is put to the question: what if devotion to such "higher things" also leads to, or becomes a mask for, moral isolation, the cauterization of social feeling? Uncompromising and yet compromised, Brand is a caution, and _Brand_ a cautionary tale...
Rating: 2
Summary: The "Good" Ibsen
Comment: Brand is the flip side of Peer Gynt. Ibsen may well have intended to write heroism into Brand, a charismatic dissenting priest, but could not breathe any life into his protagonist at all. Brand is cold, righteous, merciless, uncompromising. The play is dated, dull, static, but of historical interest to Ibsen scholars, since he may have learned plenty by writing Brand. The rather rigid Norwegian state/church of his time loved it, granted Henrik a permanent poet stipend for Brand. Modern gentle readers may roll their eyes.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books I have read....
Comment: This book captures the essence of humanity. I recommend to anyone who wants to find themself.
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Title: Henrik Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays by Rolf Fjelde, Henrik Johan Ibsen ISBN: 0452262054 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Enemy's Country: Words, Contexture, and Other Circumstances of Language by Geoffrey Hill ISBN: 0804723680 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Style and Faith: Essays by Geoffrey Hill ISBN: 1582431078 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen, Peter Watts ISBN: 0140441670 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: April, 1966 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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