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A woman in the polar night (originale 1938; edizione 2010)

di Christiane Ritter, Jane Degras

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In 1934, the Austrian painter Christiane Ritter travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen to spend a year with her husband, an explorer and researcher. They are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies... But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life. This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.… (altro)
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Titolo:A woman in the polar night
Autori:Christiane Ritter
Altri autori:Jane Degras
Info:Vancouver [B.C.] : Greystone Books, 2010
Collezioni:Kindle
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Etichette:april 2021, adventure, nature

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A Woman in the Polar Night di Christiane Ritter (1938)

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In 1934, Ritter, a painter, left her presumably ordinary life with a teenage daughter to join her husband in his life as trapper in Arctic Spitsbergen. It turns out to be as cold and inhospitable as we all imagine, and twice as primitive. Home is little better than a shack, the stove is primitive and unreliable, and all fuel needs to be found and collected by them, The same applies on the whole to food. They have supplies of lentils, coffee, condensed milk and not much else. Seals have to be caught and processed, birds too, and these fatty unfamiliar meats form much of their diet. Husband and Norwegian friend and housemate are often out trapping, looking for animals whose fur they will sell. That's enough to tell you what much of this book is about. It's twice as tough as it sounds in this unforgiving climate. But it's beautiful too, and Ritter dwells on this. Straightforwardly yet engagingly written, this book offers an insight into the strange world which she chooses for a year to inhabit, and leaves reluctantly. ( )
  Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |
In the mid-1930s, Austrian artist Christiane Ritter joined her hunter-trapper husband Herman for a year-long expedition in the Arctic wilderness. Along with their friend Karl, the couple brave extreme darkness, cold, and snow, and cope with the constant need to find fresh seal or bear meat. Christiane keeps herself busy transforming their tiny hut into a sparkling home and holding down the fort while the men are away. With her painter’s eye, she discerns the beauty of untrammeled nature. When the big boat arrives to take the adventurers back to Europe, none of them really wants to leave their beloved Spitsbergen.

Given the subject matter, I thought this memoir might be a fast paced adventure tale, but it is not. It also does not address the characters' inner lives or relationships in any degree of detail. Recommended to those who like meditative memoirs that focus on the environment.

I received an electronic pre-publication copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated in any way. ( )
  akblanchard | Nov 5, 2023 |
This is a different style of memoir than modern memoirs, less about the author and more about her experiences. She lets the reader know what she's thinking without paragraphs of analysis and navel-gazing. While some descriptions were opaque to me, overall Ritter paints a vivid and compelling picture of life in the Arctic. ( )
  ImperfectCJ | May 26, 2021 |
A Woman in the Polar Night is my favorite read of 2019. First published in 1938, its most recent incarnation is a pretty paperback published by Pushkin Press in mid-November 2019. Author Christiane Ritter was an Austrian artist who wrote of the year she lived in a remote, polar region of Finland (Svalbard) with her husband Hermann. I'm thankful to Jane Degras for this English translation.

Christiane's memoir shimmers with painterly descriptions of the bleak and ethereal polar landscape that enchanted her and Hermann. So many of Christiane's passages are quotable that I'm tempted to fill my review with them, but I think it better to let readers discover these treasures for themselves. Well, maybe just one:
The whole sky is deep lilac, lightening into a tender cobalt blue at the horizon, over the sea of ice. From the east a pale-yellow brightness spreads, and the frozen sea, reflecting the heavenly colours, shines like an immense opal. Where sea and land meet, and where the tidal water thrusts through to the surface around the heavy masses of ice, the colours of the sky are reflected as brightly as in a mirror.
I love it when an author describes a landscape so vividly that I can "see" it. Christiane's drawings are scattered throughout the book, and in the back of the book are photos of Christiane, Hermann, and the hut they lived in.

Christiane told of her adventures, venturing out with her husband and being left on her own for weeks at a time. Her stories impressed me with the extreme isolation and danger of the arctic climate, where physical and psychic survival is critical and miscalculations could mean losing your life or your mind. She reflected on the beauty of living simply, in harmony with nature, and the unnecessary excesses of European society. Her reflections are as relevant today as they were when she wrote them, nearly a hundred years ago.

Christiane Ritter was a hardy woman who lived to the age of 103. An example of her art is here: http://www.polarstern-ag.de/zitate/ritterbild.jpg.

I bought the paperback from Amazon. Yup, I bought a book. I pre-ordered it actually, and waited impatiently when its release was delayed. ( )
  Linda_Louise | Jan 20, 2021 |
Een vrouw in de poolnacht door Christiane Ritter

Zo blij dat dit boek eindelijk ook in het Nederlands te verkrijgen is! Christina reist in de zomer van 1934 haar man, die als onderzoeker op Spitsbergen verblijft, achterna. Samen met hem en Karl, een Noorse jager, verblijft ze een jaar in een hut, ver weg van alles en iedereen. Dit boek is haar persoonlijke verhaal, aangevuld met kleine tekeningen die ze zelf maakte.

Sinds de eerste verschijning in 1938 is dit reisverhaal voortdurend te krijgen geweest in Duitslan. Blij dat dit boek mee kan liften op de golf van populariteit die tegenwoordig rond ‘wild’ boeken hangt. Waar er eerst grotendeels verhalen verschenen van mannen beginnen er nu meer en meer parels van vrouwen op te duiken en dat juich ik toe.

Voor de mannen in die tijd was overwinteren op de Noordpool al een hels karwei, een avontuur enkel weggelegd voor ‘afwijkenden’; voor een vrouw viel (en valt nog steeds) zo een avontuur helemaal buiten de sociaal aanvaarde conventies. En dat maakt haar verhaal, zeker omdat het zich in 1934 afspeelde, zo immens indrukwekkend.

Ik moest er even inkomen, haar schrijfstijl is (in het begin) ietwat stijf maar al snel werd ik helemaal meegesleept en las het boek vlot en verslavend weg. Hoewel het tegendraads klinkt (vlot lezen en stoppen) heb ik het boek ook vaak even neergelegd, zinnen opnieuw gelezen. De natuur die Christiane zo beeldig beschrijft is zo overweldigend en zo anders dan wat wij kennen dat ik alles diep in mij wou laten doordringen. Als de mannen gaan jagen blijft Ritter vaak dagen, weken alleen in de hut, dat alleen zijn (en daar is alleen echt alleen) sijpelt door in haar gedachten, blik en schrijven. Dat maakt dit verslag nog levendiger en nog origineler. Ik had mij nooit kunnen voorstellen dat iets wat zo donker, zo wit is, ook zo gelaagd kan zijn en zo veel kleur kan bevatten. Hoewel ik een enorme koukleum ben heb ik nu heimwee naar een wereld die ik enkel op papier heb gekend. Als er morgen iemand langskomt die mij meeneemt naar de Noordpool dan vertrek ik, direct. Dat is te danken aan Christiane die op een heel eerlijke, informatieve manier immens afzien tot iets moois kan verheffen. Mensen die hebben meegemaakt wat zij heeft meegemaakt worden nooit meer wie zo ooit geweest zijn en dat is jaloersmakend. Naast een boeiend verslag over een wereld zo ver van de onze is dit ook een dagboek dat treffend mensen en hun interacties in een kleine wereld beschouwt én bovenal is het een verhaal vol liefde. Liefde voor een plek, liefde voor de natuur met al haar inwoners en liefde voor elkaar. Zonder één seconde romantiek is dit toch één van de meest romantische verhalen die ik ooit las. Wow. ( )
  Els04 | Feb 15, 2019 |
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Christiane Ritterautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Degras, JaneTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Wheeler, SaraPrefazioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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In 1934, the Austrian painter Christiane Ritter travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen to spend a year with her husband, an explorer and researcher. They are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement. At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies... But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life. This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.

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