Brand Henric Ibsen Newly Translated from the Norwegian By Michael Meyer

By Henrik Ibsen and Edmund Gosse

Book Overview

The story of a minister driven by faith to risk the death of his wife and child, Brand pits a man of vision against the forces of ignorance and venality. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• ISBN: B001ALMGCI
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Book
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Patience hardens

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...

One of the best books I have read....

This book captures the essence of humanity. I recommend to anyone who wants to find themself.