Elizabeth Rokkan

Tarjei Vesaas

Two 11-year old girls, Unn and Siss, meet. Unn is about to reveal a secret, one that leads to her death in a formation of ice caused by a large waterfall. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of a friend, the strange frozen world of the waterfall, and the description of Unn's fatal exploration of the ice palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the memorable achievements of modern literature.

The Ice Palace

With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by his lonely older sister, Hege. Their routine, isolated existence is interrupted when a lumberjack arrives at their lakeside cottage and falls in love with Hege, leaving Mattis fearful that he will lose his sister. The careful translation from the Norwegian underscores Vesaas's rare sensitivity in recording Mattis's often insightful view of his world. With a limited understanding of the unpredictable power of nature, Mattis nonetheless turns to the elements to discover the answers—with unsettling results.

The Birds

Das Eis-Schloss

"Eleven-year-old Unn is a recent arrival in a rural community where she lives with her aunt. Shy and introverted, she strikes up an unlikely friendship at school with a boisterous classmate, Siss, and an unusual bond develops between them. When Siss visits Unn they declare their intense feelings for each other, but Siss suddenly feels threatened and leaves. Unn, who has been wanting to share a secret, cannot face Siss the next day. Learning of a forthcoming school outing to the 'ice palace' - a giant structure formed by a frozen waterfall - she sets off alone to visit it never to return. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend, the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen chambers of the waterfall and Unn's fatal exploration of the ice palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature."--Cover.

A new edition of what is commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other's company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss's world is shattered. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn's fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall that is the Ice Palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature.

Buz Sarayı

The ice palace

Boka fortel om venskapen mellom to småjenter Siss og Unn. Unn går for langt inn i den frosne fossen, og Siss kjempar mot frosten i sitt eige sinn. Det er ein roman om vaknande kjensler, om å vera åleine og framand i verda, om barn på treskelen til dei vaksnes medvit, om det mørke grenseland i sinnet der mange slag krefter, draumar og drifter strir om makta.

Is-slottet

Il castello di ghiaccio

Buz Sarayi

Tarjei Vesaas, one of Scandinavia's greatest fiction writers, has been less well known as a poet. Now Roger Greenwald, an award-winning translator of Scandinavian poetry, presents forty-six poems drawn from Vesaas's six volumes of poetry. This selection is intended to reveal the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. The Norwegian texts appear facing the English versions, which won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize. The translator's groundbreaking introduction explores why Vesaas's poetry has often resisted critical analysis and how it challenges received notions of modernism. Excerpts from Vesaas's writings about himself and his work supply helpful background and give some sense of the man behind the work. Vesaas emerges as a lyric and meditative poet of uncommon depth, who renders states of being beyond the reach not only of discourse, but of most poetry as well. From "The Boat on Land": Your still boat hasn't got a name. Your still boat hasn't got a port. Your secret boat on land. From "Shadows on the Point" We stand here in your deep night, Night, and wait for something new from beyond the point. The current runs black and silent. And what we feel through it we don't tell each other.

Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas

Through Naked Branches

Gli uccelli

Ice Palace (Sun and Moon Classics)

A series of semi-autobiographical sketches, The Boat in the Evening evokes intensely poetic scenes with cinematic beauty: a colony of cranes arrive at their mating ground to play out a delicate ritual drama; a boy and his father clear a road together in a pitiless snowstorm; a drowning man floats down river towards rescue.

The Boat in the Evening

Kuslar

Die Vögel

El palacio de hielo es una hermosísima historia de amistad entre dos niñas, Siss y Unn, de once años, y la dolorosa huella que la muerte de una de ellas deja en la otra. Historia de una amistad más fuerte que el amor y la muerte, surgida de un breve encuentro en el que las protagonistas juran que se recordarán siempre. Siss, una muchacha despierta, líder de su clase en la escuela, vive intrigada por Unn, una niña de su misma edad llegada al pueblo para vivir con su tía, ya que es huérfana de madre soltera. Tímida, solitaria, siempre aislada de los demás, Unn parece encerrar un secreto que Siss quiere compartir. La amistad entre ambas quedará truncada, apenas iniciada, por la desaparición de Unn, muerta en el interior del palacio de hielo, donde penetra sola, un día en que falta a la escuela.

El palacio de hielo / The Ice Palace

Previous edition entitled The boat in the evening.

The Hills Reply

"The story of Mattis, with learning difficulties, who lives in a small house near a lake with his sister Hege who ekes out a modest living knitting sweaters. From time to time Mattie encourages her brother to find work to ease their financial situation, but Mattits's attempts come to nothing. When, finally, he sets himself up as a ferryman, the only passenger he manages to bring across the lake is a lumberjack, Jørgen. When Jørgen and Hege become lovers, Mattis finds he cannot adjust to this new situation"--P. [4] of cover.

The birds

”Kimen” er om massesuggesjon og dei innfløkte motiva bak valdshandlingar.

Tarjei Vesaas

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