Henrik Falk

Vigdis Hjorth

Who would Hedda Gabler be today? Henrik Falk returns home from his honeymoon with his heavily pregnant wife Elsa; he already feels trapped. He has lost his family inheritance on the stock market. Now he is employed at his father-in-law's gas station and lives in a house in his garden. Henrik Falk cannot stand the trivialities and intimacy of his in-laws' life; the foot massages, the May Day cakes and the heartshaped twig on the door. When Henrik Falk learns that his former lover, the controversial artist Tale Løvlie, has bought his childhood home, the situation becomes unbearable.

"A perfect work in itself… Vigdis Hjorth has never written better"JYLLANDS-POSTEN

"Vigdis Hjorth's language, her ability to write according to the rhythm of her breath and to tell from the space between what is thought and what is spoken, is phenomenal... In Henrik Falk, the tragedy from the 19th century is transformed into a kind of angst-filled satire. 138 pages of luminous tragicomedy."DAGENS NYHETER

"Henrik Falk appears in every way to be a project after Hjorth's own heart. She exaggerates the conformist life just enough to make it seem like a farce. Hjorth's both everyday and insistent language matches well with the tensions in Ibsen's drama. This is a joyful read."VÅRT LAND