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"L'anitra Selvatica" was written by Henrik Ibsen and published in 1884. Pioneering Norwegian playwright who reshaped modern drama with his realistic and often controversial works.

L'anitra Selvatica

1884

Henrik Ibsen

L'anitra Selvatica

Henrik Ibsen

1884

Translated by Enrico Polese Santarnecchi

When Gregers Werle returns to his provincial hometown after fifteen years of self-imposed exile, he carries with him an incriminating secret and an unshakeable conviction that truth is holy. His childhood friend Hjalmar Ekdal has built a modest life as a photographer with a wife, Gina, and a daughter, Hedvig, but Gregers sees only deception: a marriage founded on lies, a family unaware of the past that binds them to his own wealthy household. He sets out to 'reveal' reality, to free Hjalmar from what Gregers perceives as a life built on false premises. But Ibsen's masterpiece asks a devastating question: what happens when truth becomes a weapon? The Wild Duck unravels as Gregers' idealistic crusade dismantles the very happiness he claims to save, exposing the cruelty of those who demand reality without considering whether reality can be borne. This is Ibsen at his most haunting: a play about the lies we need to live, the wounds we cannot unopen, and the terrible innocence of those who believe that knowing is always better than believing.

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A play written in the late 19th century. This drama explores complex themes of reality, deception, and the consequences...

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“Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“The forests avenge themselves.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“A man who has the inventive genius can't control it exactly as he wishes. Its working depends in great measure on inspiration--on a momentary suggestion--and it is almost impossible to tell beforehand at what moment it will come.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.””

— Henrik Ibsen

“Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?””

— Henrik Ibsen

“Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters.””

— Henrik Ibsen