#Kristin Lavransdatter
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Sigrid Undset, the Norwegian author of Kristin Lavransdatter and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature, was an outspoken critic of Hitler and the Nazis from the early 1930s. When Germany occupied Norway in 1940, Undset fled to the U.S., and lived in Brooklyn Heights until the end of the war. Here she is selecting books from her library to donate to soldiers and sailors, February 1, 1942.
Photo: Associated Press
#vintage New York#1940s#Sigrid Undset#Kristin Lavransdatter#World War II#home front#Nobel Prize for Literature#Feb. 1#1 Feb.#Winston Churchill#vintage Brooklyn
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Kristin Lavransdatter dir. Liv Ullmann (1995)
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btw, The Bridal Wreath is available on project Gutenberg. It's rather dense but it is also a really excellent look into the life of a young woman in medieval Norway and her passionate romance with the young man her parents don't approve of
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Statue of Kristin Lavransdatter, Sel, Norway
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Le Tournoi des Dames - Round One - Euro Lit Match Up
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“Then may God forsake me,” said Erlend slowly, “if ever a woman or maiden should come into my arms before I dare to possess you with honor and in keeping with the law. Repeat what I have said,” he implored her.
Kristin said, “May God forsake me if I ever take any other man into my arms, for as long as I live on this earth.”
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
It strikes me that there is a wide gap between the two oaths. They are not vowing the same things.
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A man's heart is the first thing to come alive in his mother's womb and the last thing to fall silent.
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homesickness urged her forward; homesickness drew her back
sigrid undset, kristin lavransdatter
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Kristin Lavransdatter
As promised, let’s talk about Kristin.
Kristin Lavransdatter is a saga written by Sigrid Undset in the 1920s. It comes in three parts, The Wreath, The Wife, and The Cross. I read it as a single novel, all 1125 pages of it, in the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition that was released in 2005.
When we first meet Kristin, she is seven years old, the oldest daughter of Lavrans, a highly respected…
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Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
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CnD #8: Donkeys Are Awesome Edition
#comic art#comics#fantasy literature#medieval fantasy#original comic#cnd#epic fantasy#fantasy comic#webcomic#hobgoblins#d&d#kristin lavransdatter
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Either on the 26th or the 31st… you guys might be in for the most shocking thing a young woman on catholicblr could post
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Kristin Lavransdatter I will return to the other two books in your series once I have time again...
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I do realize the impossibility of creating a "one size fits all" list of "classics everyone must read before they die!" but if you felt like listing a few authors or books you think are basically always left off those lists in favour of some american or english book, i would be interested! i have the same complaint abt anglocentric "classics lists" but to find these books that are neither my own literary culture or English Classics, I am just sending out blind feelers
With the disclaimer that I have seen some of these books on the lists you mention (but infrequently, and often ignored in favour of mediocre Anglo literature), here are a few of my (non-Anglo, but unfortunately still very European skewing) recommendations. To be honest, these are just intended as starting points for dipping your toes in various countries' literary canon.
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
I'm reading this right now and it's so full of sentences I want to serve with tea and biscuits on a Sunday afternoon while watching the snowfall outside, I'm not sure how else to convey the deep sense of contentment I get from reading this.
Kin - Miljenko Jergović
Based-on-true-events family saga about Yugoslavia through the 20th century, and I'm honestly annoyed that Jergović is still relatively unknown in the English speaking world. Personally I think his collection of short stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, is even better, but Kin is more books-to-read-before-you-die material due to its scope and length.
The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
Zweig is fairly consistently left off the lists, even the better ones that actually include German language authors like Goethe and Mann, which is a shame because The World of Yesterday is the memoir of a man who had a front row seat at pretty much all the important events in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. He knew Freud. He knew Rilke. He knew a guy who knew Lenin. He had opinions on everything. In addition to being beautifully written, it's such a good way of learning history through immersion.
Danton's Death - Georg Büchner
Due to personal reasons I really vibe with this. Also a must-read if you're in any way obsessed with the French Revolution.
Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
Really famous in Hungary ever since its publication in 1937, but it wasn't translated into English until after 2000, which explains its relative lack of popularity outside Hungary. If I could scrub every book recommendation list clean of Harry Potter and put this there instead, I would.
Victoria - Knut Hamsun
Look, I've had tough dudes admit to me that they cried on public transport while reading this.
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
Undset wrote historical fiction about medieval Norway before it was cool, but she rarely or never seems to make it onto the rec lists, which is a shame. To be fair, even in Norway her reputation seems to have suffered a bit from the fact that she converted to Catholicism, which was considered at best a bit unfashionable, at worst outright scandalous, at the time. At any rate, Kristin Lavransdatter is well worth a read.
The Makioka Sisters - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
I feel like the vibes here are similar to Tolstoy (there's even, funnily enough, a minor character called Vronsky), and it's a very good portrait of Japanese middle class life in the 1930s. An overarching theme in Tanizaki's works is the ongoing conflict between Japanese tradition and the more westernised lifestyle adopted by the younger generation, which has the added benefit of giving a Western readers something familiar to hang on to while reading, so why Tanizaki is left out of those rec lists is honestly beyond my comprehension.
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Statue of Kristin Lavransdatter in Gudbrandsdal, Norway
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My mother is re-reading Kristin Lavransdatter after having a vicious argument about it with my uncle a few months back (he didn't think the book was as good as she claimed) and the other day on the phone she was like "I've been formulating some thoughts, I think I'm beginning to understand why men are so averse to the so-called women's literature" and I'm like really. Now you're beginning to understand. And when I was explaining the reasons and couldn't shut up about it I was just "generalizing" and making shit up huh
#well i'm glad she reached it at last ig#btw my uncle absolutely is a misogynist when it comes to books written by women. he just tries to be very subtle about it bc he's aware#and he knows it's not a good look
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