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biography true in the objective sense of the
word that I am presenting here.
By the by, what is objective truth in
speaking of the analysis of the soul?
Many will disagree with my views, and
put a very different interpretation on some
of Sonia’s feelings and actions, but from
my standpoint this does not affect me. All
the facts I relate are essentially true, so far
as I have been capable of verifying them.
In this respect I have not followed Sonia’s
own suggestions, for with regard to facts
she was frequently most fantastic.
When, a year ago, I met Henrik Ibsen
in Christiania, and told him that I was
writing a biography of Sonia Kovalevsky,
he said :
‘Is it a biography in the true sense of
the word, or a poetic image, you are going
to give?’
‘It is,’ I answered, ‘her own poem about
herself, seen with my eyes, which I mean
to write.’
‘Quite right,’ he said, ‘the subject must
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