Why haven't you read Henrik Ibsen, father of the modern

>>8973647
Do you take me for a pleb? I've read lots of Ibsen, and acted in Hedda Gabler.

>>8973647
i just can't take his facial hair seriously. i'm sorry.

>>8973647

Only managed to scrounge up A Doll's House at my local book shop so far. Thought it was brilliant.

What's the essential Ibsen?

>>8973809
doll's house, ghosts, hedda gabler, master builder

peery gynt for classical music memes

daily reminder ibsen is on the essentials list

Absolutely Required Works:
The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Proverbs
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce (1914, 1922)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt (1970/2016)

'Gegangere' was good. Haven't read anything else. Got a collection of his plays as a gift from my gf, so I'll read it all soon.

>>8973827
Gengangere*
My bad.

>>8973801
You vain man

>>8973836
it's vain to consider someone else's facial hair to be silly? i always figured vanity was regarded from a personal perspective, like "my facial hair is amazing, that makes me better than you", for example.

>>8973851
It's vain to comment on someone's appearance when the thread is a discussion of literature.

Stop projecting you child

read or watch?

>>8973869
Poo

I've read most of his plays. Favorites are Pillars of Society and Wild Duck.

Hedda Gabler even today seems really fucked up in a good way. It's probably more relatable to audiences today than it was then, actually.

I want to read a book like the first half of Shyness and Dignity

>>8973854
>insinuating projection is what's going on here in any way
>continues using the term vain without fully comprehending its meaning
hm, so you use the word incorrectly, then try to insult me. why are you so fucking upset? the guy's hair looks fucking stupid. get over it. if you can't deal with a simple comment in jest without blowing your top, you're the child.

>>8973647
Fordi Hamsun er bedre.