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The Great Political Fictions: Lea Ypi on The Wild Duck

The writer and political philosopher Lea Ypi talks about the impact on her of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1884), which she first read when she was eight – thinking it was a children’s book (it isn’t!) – and has been returning to ever since. A play about family and betrayal, idealism and disappointment, temptation and self-destruction, is it also a parable about the illusions of politics? And how might it shake a person’s faith?


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Next time: Helen Lewis on To Kill A Mockingbird


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28 July 2024

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