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Ghosts (Paperback)
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Ghosts (Paperback)
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Ghosts is Ibsen's formidably realistic play about the effects of
previous generations on the young, a stinging satire on
contemporary Norwegian society and morality, and a haunting tragedy
that, more than a century since it premiered, still retains its
power to shock. In Ibsen's study of the lingering poison in a
marriage based on a lie, Osvald Alving returns from Paris to his
mother's home, carrying with him a dreadful secret. His mother's
delight at having him home soon turns to horror and grief. The
corruption that she had hoped to spare him from when sending him
away from the influence of his depraved father has in fact infected
his whole body in the form of syphillis. In Mrs Alving and her
son's distrust of conventional religion and mores and Oswald's
anguish with life, Ibsen created a thoroughly modern and
provocative work that created widespread outrage and shock when
first produced in 1881. 'Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major
fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace,
their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius,
have beaten academic versions from the field' George Steiner, The
New Statesman
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