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GERHART HAUPTMANN
LONELY LIVES
GERHART
HAUPTMANN is the
dramatist of whom it may be justly said
that he revolutionized the spirit of dram
atic art in Germany : the last Mohican of
a group of four Ibsen, Strindberg, Tolstoy, and
Hauptmann who illumined the horizon of the
nineteenth century. Of these Hauptmann, un
doubtedly the most human, is also the most uni
versal.
It is unnecessary to make comparisons between
great artists: life is sufficiently complex to give
each his place in the great scheme of things. If,
then, I consider Hauptmann more human, it is
because of his deep kinship with every stratum of
life. While Ibsen deals exclusively with one at
titude, Hauptmann embraces all, understands all,
and portrays all, because nothing human is alien
to him.
Whether it be the struggle of the transition
stage in
"
Lonely Lives," or the conflict between
the Ideal and the Real in
"
The Sunken Bell," or
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