Note 357 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Auguste Ehrhard, op. cit., p. 412: ‘He [Ibsen] assigns himself a rôle to acquaint us in a direct manner with his own disillusionings.... He presents himself in the fantastic and tormented character of Ulric Brendel. Let us not be deceived by the disguise in which he veils himself. Ulric Brendel, the fool, is no other than Henrik Ibsen, the idealist’(?).