Book
The hills reply / Tarjei Vesaas ; translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781939810380
- ISBN: 1939810388
- Physical Description: 274 pages ; 17 cm.
- Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
- Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©1971
Content descriptions
| General Note: | English translation ©1971. Previous edition entitled: The boat in the evening. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | As it stands in the memory -- In the marshes and on the earth -- Spring in winter -- Daybreak with shining horses -- The drifter and the mirrors -- The wasted day creeps away on its belly -- Washed cheeks -- Fire in the depths -- Words, words -- The dream of stone -- The heart lies naked beside the highway in the dark -- The tranquil river glides out of the landscape -- Beyond one's grasp -- Just walking up to fetch the churn -- The melody -- The rivers beneath the earth. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Tarjei Vesaas's final work before his death, this episodic novel drifts between dream-like abstraction and vivid description of seemingly ordinary yet heightened scenes of the Norwegian countryside. The first story finds a young boy and his father clearing a logging road deep in snow, as their surroundings give way to an expression of power and resignation between the two. Commentary on human behavior continues to meet the quiet power of the natural world in many of the sketches: a narrator watches, enthralled by the convergence of a flock of cranes in a marsh; a girl stands in the snow, waiting for someone who does not come; a drowning man is pushed downstream, towards his eventual rescue. The more abstract vignettes rhythmically ponder questions of the uncertainty of being, Vesaas's hypnotic prose an invitation to examine the telling, and sometimes disturbing, cycles of nature. The many overlapping, semi-autobiographical sketches of The Hills Reply relate a deep appreciation for the complexity of the human condition, nature, and relationships"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Norway > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
