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S'està carregant… The Son Avenger: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 4 (1927 original; edició 1995)de Sigrid Undset (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Really good, interesting, and engaging book, but not the masterpiece that is Kristenlavensdottr. ( ) Here is what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Only vague recollections of this series; this is interesting consider first series was read nine years earlier. Perhaps a testimony that Kristen Lattensdatter is the stronger series!" Was obviously on a medieval reading course during this time of life; check out other books read during the years 1995-97. And, interesting that they were all written by women. Undset's fourth and final book of the Master of Hestviken series is about finding forgiveness within one's true identity. Olav Audunsson now has a daughter of marrying age. He is dismayed when her first suitor is a teenage boy exiled for accidentally killing a man. History repeats itself as Aslak's dilemma mirrors Olav's past mistake, but Olav does not want to acknowledge this in any way. Instead of compassion for Aslak's situation, Olav convinces his daughter to marry another. In addition, Eirik, the amoral and reckless son Olav has taken for his own has returned to Hestviken. Eirik's life is also following the same path as Olav's in that his relationships are troubled. His standing as a moral member of society is compromised. Olav is helpless and can only watch as Eirik struggles to make his way in the world as a decent citizen. Olav, Eirik, and Cecelia all journey towards forgiving one another as well as themselves. This series was excellent (my rating and review stands for all 4 books). The author was able to channel a degree of saga-esque prose while also examining Christian faith and the stain of sin from a more modern perspective. On top of that, it had excellent action, extraordinarily complex and well-examined characters, and a consistency that most tetrologys cannot maintain. I look forward to Kristin Lavransdatter a great deal, as it is supposed to be the superior of the two epics. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic of one man's fateful life in medieval Norway Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil, bloody family vendettas, and rising tensions between secular powers and an ascendant church, Sigrid Undset's spellbinding masterpiece now follows the fortunes of Olav Audunssøn to the final, dramatic chapter of his life as it unfolds in Winter, the last volume of the tetralogy. When the orphaned Olav and his foster sister Ingunn became betrothed in their youth, a chain of events was set in motion that eventually led to violence, banishment, and a family separation lasting years. The consequences fracture their marriage and threaten the lineage for generations. Now, at the end of his life, Olav continues to grapple with the guilt of his sins as he watches his children, especially Eirik, make disastrous choices and struggle to find their rightful place in a family haunted by the past. With its precise details and sweeping vision, Olav Audunssøn summons a powerful picture of Northern life in medieval times, as noted by the Swedish Academy in awarding Undset the Nobel Prize in 1928. Conveying both the intimate drama and the epic proportions of Olav's story at its conclusion, Winter is a moving and masterly recreation of a vanished world tainted by bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution--yet one that might still offer a chance for redemption. As with Kristin Lavransdatter, her earlier medieval epic, Sigrid Undset wrote Olav Audunssøn after immersive research in the legal, religious, and historical writings of the time to create an astoundingly authentic and compelling portrait of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as in her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter, Tiina Nunnally does full justice to Undset's natural, fluid prose--in a style by turns plainspoken and delicately lyrical--to convey the natural world, the complex culture, and the fraught emotional territory against which Olav's story inexorably unfolds. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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