Abstract Ibsen’s Peer Gynt holds a unique position in Norwegian culture as a ‘national epic’ that simultaneously satirizes the idea of coherent national and individual identities. This article analyzes the dramatic text’s recent adaptation into a graphic novel, published in Norway in 2014. We argue that this adaptation indicates which aspects of the play seem relevant to modern Norwegian readers. Through close, comparative readings of two key scenes in Ibsen’s text and in the adaptation, we show how the many metaliterary aspects of the former are creatively and irreverently treated in the latter. Moreover, we argue that one of the most striking aspects of Peer Gynt, the graphic novel, is its depiction of postmodern, performative identities, and the ‘liquidity’ of modern Western individuals.

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“类似于Peer Gynt” –在适应中重塑Peer

摘要易卜生的Peer Gynt在挪威文化中作为“民族史诗”享有独特的地位，同时讽刺了统一的民族和个人身份的观念。本文将戏剧文字的最新改编成一本插图小说，于2014年在挪威出版。我们认为这种改编表明该剧的哪些方面似乎与现代挪威读者相关。通过对易卜生著作和改编中的两个关键场景进行仔细的比较阅读，我们展示了后者如何创造性地，毫不留情地对待前者的许多元文学方面。此外，我们认为，图画小说《 Peer Gynt》最引人注目的方面之一是它对后现代，表演身份的描述以及现代西方个体的“流动性”。