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The Man Ibsen
Hollander, Lee M. | February 26, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Ibsen, the Master Builder," by A.F. Zucker. The book somewhat too modestly, disclaims any treatment of literary criticism and literary influences and lays its main stress on the outer circumstances of the life that gave birth to playwright Henrik Ibsen's works. The book is a step backward. It risks a paradox. One may say that in the present case the work is greater than the man. In this well-executed exposition Ibsen the artist towers again as incontestably the greatest literary figure in Europe, but Ibsen the man shrinks and at any rate is neither admirable nor engaging.

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IBSEN, the Master Builder (Book); ZUCKER, A. F.; IBSEN, Henrik, 1828-1906; DRAMATISTS; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; LIFE
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