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Jun 24, 1995 | ISBN 9780679755524 Buy
Dec 08, 2010 | ISBN 9780307773098 Buy
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Jun 24, 1995 | ISBN 9780679755524
Dec 08, 2010 | ISBN 9780307773098
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, ‘The Son Avenger’ suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of ‘Olav the Bad, ‘ Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or Lear.
Sigrid Undset is a major figure in early-twentieth-century literature. A Norwegian born in Denmark in 1881, she worked with the Norwegian underground during the Second World War, fled to Sweden in 1940, and later came to the United States. She… More about Sigrid Undset
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