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Title: The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen ISBN: 0-486-41116-8 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 10 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a vast masterpiece
Comment: so hilarious, so poignant, so daring, and so dense - teeming with life - the characters speaking their characterization - and such beautiful characters - and so wacko
Rating: 5
Summary: The Wild Duck We Know
Comment: Many find Ibsen difficult to understand. I certainly did. However, by reading The Wild Duck, I was introduced to an entire new world of symbolism and creative writing. Like the master he was, Ibsen paints a portrait of a family, representing all of us, living on a lie. Cruelty in our midst, innocent victimes and pragmatists losing to the vindictive, it's all there. The touches of comedy and tragedy just increase the impression that it does concern us, that really, he's looked into our lives and seen our lies, although hopefully in a less extreme version. And don't we all know a Hedvig, a Gina, a Hjalmar and a Gregers? Maybe there's something of the all in all of us... The book sucks you in, creeps under your skin and stays there, along with the horror, the anger and the sympathy you feel while reading. In my opinion, one of the best examples of Ibsen's less romantic period of writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: is there a hialmar ekdal fan club?
Comment: Ibsen's philosophical "message" in this play disturbs me. I don't think I agree with Dr. Relling that each of us needs his own brand of self-deception to cope with life. Certainly Hialmar Ekdal is content enough, and hilariously funny as an lazy fool who thinks he's a creative genius in photograhy, a breadwinner to his wife and daughter, and a martyr to his father's scandalous past. Alas, his friend Gregers Werl points the way to the truth, that Hialmar is deceived about everything in his life. It would all be comical but for the fact that Hialmar's daugher Hedvig, who is probably not his daugther at all, shoots herself as proof of her love for Hialmar. So, Ibsen seems to say, here the truth has cost a young girl's life, an unbearable tragedy but for the fact that she was going blind. Well, no doubt there is cost in knowing the truth about oneself and about others, no doubt there are things we prefer not to know, and no doubt there are people like Hialmar who are impervious to truth. But there are also people like Hialmar's wife Gina, and Dr. Relling himself, who know the truth and who hold up nobly and well. For at least these, I think Ibsen should recommend truth in large doses, and perhaps he does.
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Title: Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang ISBN: 0802136613 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry ISBN: 1559361409 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130763 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh ISBN: 0822216647 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts by Sam Shepard ISBN: 0452263573 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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