Sigrid Undset (1882–1949)
Autore di Kristin figlia di Lavrans
Sull'Autore
Sigrid Undset was the daughter of archeologist Ingvald Undset. Cultural, autobiographical, and religious topics constitute a large and interesting portion of her fiction, which in Norway is categorized according to the time of action: medieval or modern. Jenny (1911), an idealistic and tragic love mostra altro story, is one of the latter novels. Undset's comprehensive knowledge of medieval Scandinavian culture has its literary monuments in Kristin Lavransdatter (1920--22) and The Master of Hestviken (1925--27), historical novels that depict life in the Norwegian Middle Ages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Norwegian criticism of Sigrid Undset's writing centers on her religiosity (she became a conservative, almost reactionary Catholic in Lutheran Norway in the 1920s; she possesses an intensity of belief that is rather naturally expressed in the medieval novels. Yet while she has written religious polemics, the medieval novels are not tendentious. In fact, the central motifs are eroticism, marriage, and family life, in short, the full life of a medieval woman who sees herself in the light of contemporary Christian beliefs. These novels are great, realistic delineations of medieval personalities. During World War II she escaped the German occupation of Norway and fled to America, where she wrote her autobiographical Happy Times in Norway (1942). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(nor) Sigrid Undset's sitat: "Menneskenes hjerter forandres aldeles intet i alle dager. Det er bare de ytre forholdende, vanene og miljø som har forandret seg, ikke følelsene, kjærligheten, skylden og ansvaret".
Fonte dell'immagine: Sigrid Undset - photo: Eivind Enger, Kristiania, 1905
Serie
Opere di Sigrid Undset
KRISTIINA LAURITSANTYTÄR 2:2 - 3 25 copie
Romaner og fortellinger fra nutiden. B.2 Splinten av trollspeilet ; Vårskyer (1996) 13 copie, 1 recensione
Fortellingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis ; Fortellinger om kong Artur og ridderne av det runde bord (1982) 11 copie, 1 recensione
På livets skuggsida 7 copie
Selvbiografiske skrifter Elleve år; Kjære Dea; Lykkelige dager; Tilbake til fremtiden (1989) 6 copie
Helgener : Norske helgener ; To europeiske helgener ; Sankt Halvards liv, død og jærtegn (1992) 4 copie
Etapper 3 copie
Madame Dorothe 2 copie
Steen Steensen Blicher 2 copie
Artikler og taler fra krigstiden 2 copie
Sigrid Undset 2 copie
Den lykkelige alder 2 copie
Kristina Lavransdatter Tomo 1 1 copia
Olaf syn Auduna. T. 2 1 copia
Olav Audunsson og han Børn 1 copia
Kristina Lavransdatter Tomo 2 1 copia
Vigdis și Viga-Ljot 1 copia
Kristin Labransbatter Nobel Prize Edition 1929 Hardback By Sigrid Undset (The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby,… (1929) 1 copia
Olav Audunssohn auf Hestviken Hrsg. v. J. Sandmeier. (Übertr. von J. Sandmeier u. S. Angermann) 1 copia
CRISOL 383 LA ORQUIDEA BLANCA 1 copia
La orquídea blanca 1 copia
Sigrid Undset. 1 copia
KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER [VIDEO] 1 copia
CRISOL 384 LA ZARAZA ARDIENTE 1 copia
Kristin Lavranstochter Band 1-3 1 copia
La edad feliz 1 copia
Fred på jorden 1 copia
Antón Simonsen 1 copia
Olav Auduszoon op Hestviken 1 copia
Fru Waage En fremmed 1 copia
Obras completas 1 copia
DE SØKTE DE GAMLE STIER - 1 copia
La seorita Smith-Tellefsen 1 copia
Samlede romaner; B.1 - B.5 1 copia
"MASTER OF HESTVIKEN" BOOKS: The Axe (# 1) / In the Wilderness (# 3) / The Son Avenger (# 4) (1964) 1 copia
Undset Sigrid 1 copia
Middelalder-romaner 1 copia
Sunniva 1 copia
Thjodolf 1 copia
Undset, Sigrid Archive 1 copia
Wieder in die Zukunft 1 copia
Visa jungfrur 1 copia
YARINA DONUS 1 copia
Middelalderromaner b.2 1 copia
Olaf syn Audyna 1 copia
Opere correlate
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Los premios Nobel de literatura. Los padres prodigos / Voces secretas / La senhorita Smith-Tellefsen — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Undset, Sigrid
- Nome legale
- Undset, Sigrid
- Data di nascita
- 1882-05-20
- Data di morte
- 1949-06-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Mesnalia kirkegård
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Noorwegen
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Norway
- Luogo di nascita
- Kalundborg, Denemarken
- Luogo di morte
- Lillehammer, Noorwegen
- Luogo di residenza
- Kalundborg, Denemarken
Christiania, Oslo, Noorwegen
Rome, Italië
London, Engeland
Rome, Italië
Ski, Noorwegen (mostra tutto 10)
Sinsen, Christiania, Oslo, Noorwegen
Bjerkebæk, Lillehammer, Noorwegen
'40-'45 Hotell Margaret, 97, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, Amerika
Bjerkebæk, Lillehammer, Noorwegen - Attività lavorative
- Schrijfster
Secreraresse - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1943)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Grand Cross of St. Olav voor patriottische inspanningen tijdens WO II (1947)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1928) - Breve biografia
- Sigrid Undset (Kalundborg, 20 mei 1882 – Lillehammer, 10 juni 1949) was een Noorse romanschrijfster die in 1928 de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur won.
Undset werd in Kalundborg in Denemarken geboren, maar haar familie verhuisde naar Noorwegen toen zij twee jaar oud was. In 1924 bekeerde ze zich tot het katholicisme. Ze vluchtte in 1940 naar de Verenigde Staten wegens haar verzet tegen nazi-Duitsland en de Duitse bezetting, maar na de Tweede Wereldoorlog in 1945 keerde ze terug. Haar bekendste werk is Kristin Lavransdatter, een modernistische trilogie over het leven in Scandinavië in de middeleeuwen. Het boek speelt zich af in middeleeuws Noorwegen en werd van 1920 tot 1922 in drie delen gepubliceerd. Kristin Lavransdatter beeldt het leven van een vrouw van geboorte tot dood uit.
Undset stierf in Lillehammer op 67-jarige leeftijd.
Utenti
Discussioni
Group read: Kristin Lavransdatter in 2018 Category Challenge (Giugno 2018)
Recensioni
I read the first two of three books in this incredibly long epic Norwegian story. I liked it, except when I didn't. I may never go finish it, because I am not sure I care what happens to characters who continue making such horrible life mistakes.
This is very long, there is a big focus on religion and I spent a good part of the book wanting to tell Kristin to snap out of it. But even so, you don't read books set in medieval Norway every day, the relationships were complex and I was invested in knowing how lives would play out. Good for a long winter read.
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1920s (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 197
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 10,677
- Popolarità
- #2,224
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 218
- ISBN
- 516
- Lingue
- 26
- Preferito da
- 52
Despite the desperate outlook for European freedom, Undset maintains a positive outlook for the eventual overthrow of Nazism and the regeneration of the states of Europe, both their political independence and their civilizational heritage.
The book begins with her account of the heroic but ultimately doomed resistance by a militarily unprepared Norway to the German invasion and the abortive British attempt to prevent the Nazis from overrunning Norway. It was all over within a couple of months but to the credit of a nation of some three millions their fight lasted longer than that of France with its million man army following the end of the phony war when the Germans invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Undset lost her older son Anders in the fight, but managed to get to Sweden with her younger son Hans where she depended to a great extent on the kindness of strangers to survive until she could get authorization for the next phase of her journey, crossing the Soviet Union from Sweden to Vladivostok.
Her two weeks in Russia were best characterized as an unending immersion into filth and squalor that were previously unimaginable to an inhabitant of a Scandinavian country in the 20th century. Once upon a time the Western socialist sympathizers with the Bolshevik Revolution returned from Russia and informed the readers that they had "seen the future and it works" (looking at you, Lincoln Steffens). Sigurd Undset could faithfully report that in fact, almost nothing worked. Anything that still possessed the character of an advanced European civilization was in fact a remnant of the ancien regime and was in the process of falling apart due to neglect. Imagine a nine day train trip across the expanse of the Soviet Union with no functioning toilets or faucets. No wonder that when they got to Japan they went shopping for a whole new wardrobe.
Having experienced the blessings of Russian communism including an encounter with a prison train heading in the opposite direction to the Gulag on a track parallel to their own, Undset and son experience a return to civilization as soon as they board the Japanese ship, the Harbin Maru. Mindful of the brutality that the Japanese military was conducting against the Chinese, and the repression of political dissenters at home, Undset, nevertheless, has plenty positive to say about her experiences in Japan and reveals that she is well versed in Japanese history and culture.
She concludes the chapter on Japan with some thoughts on the subject of democracy and the mores of the Western nations some of which are worth quoting.
"The ideas of the democracies about freedom, equality, and brotherhood are the fruits of Christianity in peoples which before they were Christianized had regarded freedom as the highest good in the world. It was here that the community of freeborn men, under the influence of Christianity, slowly spread out to embrace larger and larger strata of the populace, here there were steadily opened more and easier paths from the strata of men bound to serve into the ranks of independent men."
Finally, the Undsets were able to board the S.S. President Cleveland just a few months before Pearl Harbor and depart for the United States which in her words marked the real beginning of their return to Norway. The final chapter is an essay containing Undset's reflections on the immediate future and the distinct possibility of the end of Western civilization as well as her long term optimism about what it will take to recover from the disasters of the world wars of the 20th century.
She is not of the opinion that the Nazi regime was an outlier in which the cultured European regime enjoyed by the citizens of Germany had been accidentally lost to a rogue gang of bandits. On the contrary, Undset presents a caustic and bitter account of the German history and the character of the Germans dating back to the earliest times, she takes pains to reject the Nazi conceit that the Germans and the Scandinavian peoples are in any way related.
Despite questioning the Western assumptions about the universality of their core beliefs and institutions, Undset sees a future in which those values will be recovered through what can only be described as a United Nations style regime and the dependence on science and the rule of experts. If she was writing from the vantage point of the first quarter of the 21st century, I would argue that she would have ample cause to rethink her position.
Return to the Future is an erudite, profound, and at times a beautiful work to which I am unable to do justice except to observe that the Nobel Prize winner of 1928 would have deserved to win it again in 1942.… (altro)