Title : Spring Night - Tarjei Vesaas - Book
Summary :
Condensed into a single night, the events, as tragic as they are joyful, which constitute the plot of Spring Night (published in Norway in 1954, a few years before the immense Birds and Ice Palace) all question the place of the individual in a Great Whole, at once human and inanimate, material and timeless, real and fantasized. Through the story of a brother and his sister plunged by chance into the heart of a family drama and transformed, from the height of their adolescence, into mediators of conflicts that escape them, we find the themes dear to the "greatest magician that Norway of the last century has given us": love and death rub shoulders with dreams and the inner life, nature constitutes this eternal escape for characters who struggle to find their place in an often ungrateful human community.
Tarjei Vesaas was born in Vinje in Telemark, southern Norway, in 1897, and died in 1970, a few kilometers from the family farm. The song of the earth, of peasant life, the exaltation of life, childhood and its psychology, are among the major themes of his work. The Ice Palace received the Grand Prize of the Nordic Council in 1963 and is, along with The Birds, one of the most emblematic novels of Vesaas's art. With Spring Night, published in 1954, Tarjei Vesaas broke with the romantic atmosphere that some contemporary critics often criticized him for: stories with suspended temporality and devoid of action.
A novel never before published in France by the author of The Ice Palace, an essential classic of Norwegian literature, published in 2014 in a new translation by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud and published by Cambourakis. This new translation is part of a major project to bring the work of Tarjei Vesaas back into the spotlight.
- EAN: 9782366241648
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