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When We Dead Awaken

by Henrik Ibsen

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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.

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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.

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Book facts

First published
1899
Reading time
About 90 minutes
Pages
78
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Arielle Lipshaw, bala, Nicholas Anema and others