Books by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People is set in a small town which has decided to build baths (spas) to bring prosperity to the community. Ibsen uses this situation to make quite a scathing attack on how people think and how governments think and how public opinion can be swayed.
“As I got a bit older and started reading things that were more literary, two things stuck in my mind. One was A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, which I helped dramatize in high school when I was about 15. And the other was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which I discovered at about the same age. And what those two plays have in common is their very dark view of marriage…A Doll’s House is not quite as dark. The notion is that a marriage is anti-feminist. That this woman, Nora, becomes free when she leaves her marriage, that leaving it is a statement of liberation. And in the 1970s that made an immense amount of sense to me. So that’s where I began, with an oppressive, dark view of marriage. And by the way, these are all very powerful works of art: very, very influential on anyone who sees them” Read more...
Jonathan Rauch, Journalist
Interviews where books by Henrik Ibsen were recommended
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Mary Poppins [DVD]
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Dancer from the Dance
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And the Band Played on
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What's Happening to the American Family?
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The Case for Marriage
by Linda J. Waite, Maggie Gallagher
The best books on Marriage, recommended by Jonathan Rauch
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The best books on Marriage, recommended by Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch, the National Journal columnist and author of Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, recounts his own marriage odyssey, starting with Mary Poppins.
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The City and the Stars
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At Risk
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An Enemy of the People
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Development in Disaster-Prone Places: Studies of Vulnerability
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The Politics of Natural Disaster: The Case of the Sahel Drought
by Michael H Glantz (ed)
The best books on Disaster Diplomacy, recommended by Ilan Kelman
The best books on Disaster Diplomacy, recommended by Ilan Kelman
The perception that disasters are isolated events beyond our control is simply not true, says the disaster research expert Dr Ilan Kelman. We – governments and others – have a greater role in creating them than we wish to acknowledge.
