The Son Avenger
by:
Sigrid Undset (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679755524 (0679755527)
ASIN: 679755527
Publish date: June 24th 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Olav Audunssøn (#4)