C is Régis Boyer, tireless translator, defender and introducer of the Icelandic sagas and all the Scandinavian and Nordic literature that matters, that we owe this incomparable volume. Its introduction, notes and appendices that he delivers are remarkable detail without curling the pedantic erudition that sometimes found in some academic experts.
It clearly highlights the key themes of the great Norwegian: desire that each of us has to accomplish its mission, the doubt, the "vital lie" that we have on ourselves to enable us to accept living, the hypocrisy of "pillars of society", the inexorable destiny that pursues us. To this adds Ibsen s the nagging desire to penetrate the female psychology, probably the main concern of his whole life playwright.
Nora Helmer, Ellida Wangel, Hedda Gabler or Rebekka West are unforgettable figures in determining or contradictions like Brand and Peer Gynt are for their desire to live or morbid attraction to destruction.
The bulk of this theater is the eternal tragedy of man confronted with his destiny and unable to overcome by himself.
This volume is imperative to put in his library honest man in the early twenty-first century.
