Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Enemy of the People
Such intellectuals as Max Eastman. John Dos Passos, and James Rorty were officially so classified.
Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906, Norwegian Writer, Title of Play, American Communist Party, Official Label for Members or Supporters whose public views had become contrary to the party line, 1930s, Herbert Solow, Minutiae of Left-Wing Literary History, Partisan Review, March 1938
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Eastman had broken with the Communist Party line and attacked Russian communism for its suppression of cultural freedom and insisting on making the artist a “soldier” in the struggle of world communism, This book supported dissident communist Leon Trotsky—considered an act of treason. Eastman and others were officially castigated. See {604277}.
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
