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24. 9.

Ibsen'sVolksfeind.“ 1 Trefflich vor Allem die Projektion des Ereignisses, also des dichterischen Problems, gerade in die engen Verhältnisse eines kleinen Badeortes, wo die Menschen, weil an Zahl weniger, desto übersichtlicher einander gegenüberstehen. Ibsen vermeidet es, seinen Helden durchaus immer im Schein des Rechtes gegenüber den seinen Mitbürgern glänzen zu lassen, vielmehr läßt er auch ihn einer praktischen Lösung dieser so eminent prakt. Frage [?mit] unfähig erscheinen. Ein Idealist an sich! Hierin Gegensatz zur älteren Dramentechnik.

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Russisches Synodalchor: pPrimitive Musik, u. sSubjektive Einbildung doch leider nicht blos eines Einzelnen, sondern einer ganzen Nation . .

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2017

Ser. A, {5} cont'd
September 24

Ibsen's An Enemy of the People . 1 Excellent, above all in the projection of experience, thus of the dramatic problem, directly into the close relationships that exist in a small spa town where the people, because so few in number, are related to one another all the more directly. Ibsen avoids letting his hero always stand out as a figure of rectitude above his fellow citizens. Instead, he even allows him to appear incapable of finding a practical solution to this so eminently practical question. An idealist in his own right! Herein lies the contrast to earlier dramatic technique.

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Russian synodal choir: primitive music, and subjective imagination, though sadly not only of an individual but of an entire nation. ...

© Translation Ian Bent, 2017

Ser. A, {5} cont'd
24. 9.

Ibsen'sVolksfeind.“ 1 Trefflich vor Allem die Projektion des Ereignisses, also des dichterischen Problems, gerade in die engen Verhältnisse eines kleinen Badeortes, wo die Menschen, weil an Zahl weniger, desto übersichtlicher einander gegenüberstehen. Ibsen vermeidet es, seinen Helden durchaus immer im Schein des Rechtes gegenüber den seinen Mitbürgern glänzen zu lassen, vielmehr läßt er auch ihn einer praktischen Lösung dieser so eminent prakt. Frage [?mit] unfähig erscheinen. Ein Idealist an sich! Hierin Gegensatz zur älteren Dramentechnik.

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Russisches Synodalchor: pPrimitive Musik, u. sSubjektive Einbildung doch leider nicht blos eines Einzelnen, sondern einer ganzen Nation . .

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2017

Ser. A, {5} cont'd
September 24

Ibsen's An Enemy of the People . 1 Excellent, above all in the projection of experience, thus of the dramatic problem, directly into the close relationships that exist in a small spa town where the people, because so few in number, are related to one another all the more directly. Ibsen avoids letting his hero always stand out as a figure of rectitude above his fellow citizens. Instead, he even allows him to appear incapable of finding a practical solution to this so eminently practical question. An idealist in his own right! Herein lies the contrast to earlier dramatic technique.

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Russian synodal choir: primitive music, and subjective imagination, though sadly not only of an individual but of an entire nation. ...

© Translation Ian Bent, 2017

Footnotes

1 Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People: play dating from 1882, the "hero" of which, Dr. Stockmann, against opposition exposes the fact that the town's spa baths are contaminated; he becomes an outcast, but stands on principle despite the likelihood that his father-in-law's tannery is the cause of the contamination.