W „Nocnym czuwaniu” mamy pozornie spokojną wieś, świnie i gospodarzy. Mamy też nikomu nieznanego człowieka. Tajemniczego mężczyznę, który rozpamiętuje swoją przeszłość. Przybywa w nowe miejsce i zachwyca się urokiem zieleni na wyspie. Wyraźnie targany jest emocjami. Niby zwyczajnie. Chciałoby się rz...
Zachęcona pozytywnymi opiniami oraz w większości bardzo dobrymi ocenami, postanowiłam rozpocząć przygodę z Vesaas’em od „Pałacu lodowego”. Czy była to dobra decyzja? I tak, i nie… Zaczęło się bardzo dobrze. Oto Vesaas poznał mnie z przebojową, rezolutną, popularną w szkole Siss. Chwilę później pozn...
A tale of delicate beauty and deceptive simplicity by one of the greatest Scandinavian writers of the 20th century -- The Birds tells the story of Mattis, who has mental disabilities and lives in a small house near a lake with his sister Hege who ekes out a modest living knitting sweaters. From time...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, lit-richer, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, norway, published-1968, tbr-busting-2015, translation, under-50-ratings, snow-times, nature, poetry, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Read from February 09 to 10, 2015 Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth RokkanDescri...
After the first pages, I thought that I will read the novel from the perspective of two sows with cute piglets and one boar, mad with boredom (I wouldn't have minded). Big, fat sows with narrow foreheads and ugly fangs, which lie passively as a latent threat. But later on, the frame widens and we fi...
A novel with a scarcity of words but with a delicate, dreamlike poetry; a story that makes you taste the coldness and isolation of winter in the middle of the summer; an adult writer who can see through the soul of an eleven year girl, down to her utmost fears; a remembrance of childhood with all it...
This is a beautiful, sad and simple story about a woman around 40 and her younger, dim-witted brother Mattis, for whom she is sole caretaker. For the first 60-70 pages I wondered if I would make it through a book that required me to inhabit the inner workings of a mentally handicapped man – it seeme...
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