Il piccolo Eyolf : dramma in tre atti by Henrik Ibsen
"Il piccolo Eyolf : dramma in tre atti" by Henrik Ibsen is a play written in the late 19th century. It is a domestic-psychological drama centered on Alfredo Allmers, his wife Rita, their disabled son Eyolf, and Alfredo’s half-sister Asta, probing guilt, responsibility, and the clash between eros and parental duty. A symbolic outsider, the Rat-Wife, threads superstition and fatalism through the family’s unrest. The opening of the play presents the Allmers’
elegant fjord-side home, where Rita and Asta greet the unexpectedly returned Alfredo. He confesses he has written nothing and declares he will abandon his grand book on “human responsibility” to devote himself to Eyolf, a thoughtful boy who walks with a crutch and dreams of soldiering. The enigmatic Rat-Wife appears, telling how she lures pests to their deaths, unsettling the household just before shouts from the shore reveal a drowning; Eyolf’s crutch is seen floating, and panic turns to devastation. At the start of the next act, Alfredo and Asta sit by the water in rain and grief, stitching mourning crepe while he wrestles with meaning and memory; Borgheim’s presence hints at Asta’s unresolved future, and a raw confrontation between Rita and Alfredo lays bare jealousy, blame for past neglect, and the painful sense that love and responsibility within the family have been fatally misaligned. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 |
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| Translator | Gagliardi, Ernesto, 1854-1933 |
| Uniform Title | Lille Eyolf. Italian |
| Title | Il piccolo Eyolf : dramma in tre atti |
| Original Publication | Milano: Treves, 1897. |
| Credits | Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Norwegian drama -- Translations into Italian |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76951 |
| Release Date | Sep 29, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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