Henrik Ibsen a Peer Gynt mezi bokmålem a nynorskem

• Authors: Humpál Martin

Title variants

EN

HENRIK IBSEN AND PEER GYNT BETWEEN BOKMÅL AND NYNORSK

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the uproar which resulted from the decision to translate Henrik Ibsen’s drama Peer Gynt (1867) from one of the official written Norwegian languages (riksmål/bokmål) to the other (landsmål/nynorsk) in 1947/48 in connection with a theatre production which had its premiere in March 1948. Many Norwegians regard Peer Gynt as the greatest work of their national literature, and therefore many of them considered it close to sacrilegious to stage it in nynorsk, the language which Ibsen did not use and, in fact, strongly disliked. Some Norwegians protested vehemently against translating the drama to nynorsk, while others found the idea perfectly acceptable. The article thus offers an interesting example of a split between two language cultures within one nation.

Keywords

CS

Henrik Ibsen; Peer Gynt; norská literatura; norské divadlo; riksmål; bokmål; landsmål; nynorsk; překlad; národní identita

EN

Henrik Ibsen; Peer Gynt; Norwegian literature; Norwegian theatre; Riksmål; Bokmål; Landsmål; Nynorsk; translation; national identity

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 60
• Pages: 64-68

Contributors

author

Humpál Martin

• Univerzita Karlova