When We Dead Awaken

Downloads: Under 100
Pages: 78

Read online EPUB Download Save

Listen to When We Dead Awaken Audiobook Free

Read by Arielle Lipshaw, bala, Nicholas Anema and others · 1 h 46 min · 3 parts

Open the player

Act 1
44:23
Act 2
44:28
Act 3
17:49

This audiobook recording is in the public domain.

The audio edition streams in the page. There is no audio file to download.

Browse all free audiobooks

About this book

A sunny morning outside a coastal bath hotel finds the sculptor Arnold Rubek and his wife Maia talking across a widening gap. She feels oppressed by the stillness of their return home, while he admits that years abroad have altered his relation to familiar surroundings. Their comfortable houses and polished social life sit uneasily beside the weariness that enters their conversation.

Henrik Ibsen gives this three-act play the designation of a dramatic epilogue. Its setting moves from the coast to a health resort high in the mountains, and its dialogue presses on questions of companionship, artistic purpose and passing time. Rubek seeks someone who can share his striving, while Maia challenges the terms of their life together. The English translation offers readers a concentrated domestic drama in which pauses, gestures and apparently ordinary remarks expose deeply felt dissatisfaction.

About the author

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama". He pioneered theatrical realism but also wrote lyrical epic works.