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SOURCE: Rovinsky, Robert T. “Ibsen and Lagerkvist Revisited.” Scandinavian Studies 50, no. 1 (1978): 39-49.
In the following essay, Rovinsky determines Henrik Ibsen's influence on Lagerkvist.
If scholars had accepted without contest Ibsen's words on Kierkegaardian impulses in his plays, this important question would most likely have died in a cul-de-sac.1 Similarly, if present day research continues on its long established tack and follows Pär Lagerkvist's pronouncements on, or rather, against Henrik Ibsen, the study which elucidates the artistic debt he owed his predecessor will never surface.
Ibsen är inte den store dramatikern: för så vitt man med dramatiker menar en diktare som först på scenen ser förverkligade alla sina intentioner, som skriver för scenen, vars dikt just där får sin mäktigaste resning och sin djupaste innebörd. Det finns bland alla hans dramer inget som verkligen vinner väsentligt på att framf...
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