Henrik Ibsen & Jon Fosse: Norway Meets New York From: The Village Voice | Date: August 23, 2006| Author: Soloski, Alexis | Copyright Village Voice Aug 23-Aug 29, 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Henrik Ibsen & Jon Fosse: Norway Meets New York

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Taking the Plunge

Swimming to Scandinavia in a fateful double feature

In Norway, people don't commit suicide more frequently than in other countries. (Indeed, the nation has one of the lower rates in the West, significantly below the U.S., France, and that current capital of self-slaughter, Lithuania.) But perhaps they off themselves more inscrutably. Certainly,...

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