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Ladataan... Alberte ja vapaus (1931)Tekijä: Cora Sandel
![]() - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. ![]() ![]() 5.0 out of 5 stars Superb writing, 12 Jun. 2016 This review is from: Alberta and Freedom (The Alberta Trilogy) (Paperback) Second volume of the Alberta trilogy: having left our 'heroine' in previous volume (Alberta and Jacob) as a depressed, dissatisfied teenager, living with her parents in the depths of N Norway, this book describes her new life in Paris. What exactly happened back home is only really explained at the end. Now she has 'escaped' to Paris, where she is on the fringes of the artistic set. She supports herself by writing occasional articles, and a bit of modelling for painters. But life is hard, living in a garret and struggling to make ends meet. Despite her newly acquired freedom from Mama's eagle eye, she still struggles for warmth and food. Her flat-mate goes off into an ill-advised relationship, while Alberta's own prospective romance is hampered by her lingering memories of the ties which commitment entails: "Marriage - the very word dragged, it sounded compelling and burdensome." Almost a feeling of a 'stream of consciousness' novel at times - but utterly readable - Sandel takes us inside Alberta's head as she lives a somewhat passive existence, craving something better, yet never attempting to find regular work. And leaves the reader on the edge, wanting to find out how things work out in the final volume 'Alberta Alone'.... After loving the first book (Alberta and Jacob)in this semi-autobiographical trilogy by Norwegian Nobel prize winner, Cora Sandel, I have to say I was a bit disappointed in this book. I still loved the writing and thought that Sandel does a fantastic job creating a sense of place, this time Paris as a struggling young adult. But while I found Alberta's shyness and lack of direction understandable and sort of endearing in book one when she was 17, I had less patience for it when she's in her early 20s. Alberta is in Paris now, just kind of hanging around. She's barely working - just writing an article here and there - and subsisting in mice-infested apartments with little to no food to eat. And she just can't seem to get her act together to even attempt a career. I will finish the trilogy, but I wasn't thrilled with this book. The writing is great enough, though, to keep me going. I also think I read that she goes back to Norway in the third book and one of my favorite things about the first book in the series was the excellent description of Norway. Continues on from "Alberta and Jacob" some years later when Alberta is living in Paris, struggling to make ends meet amid artist friends. It is not too important to have read the previous book in the trilogy although a few flashbacks later in the book will make more sense if you have. An important book for its time in writing about women's issues, based loosely on the author's life. "Alberta and Freedom" continues the story back in Norway a few years further on. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Sisältyy tähän:The Alberta Trilogy (tekijä: Cora Sandel)
Cora Sandel was one of the most important Scandinavian writers of the 20th century and this is the second volume in her richly acclaimed Alberta trilogy. Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the summer riches in Paris: a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is absinthe and endless talk of Cubism. But Paris is not all she imagined: although she begins to write small pieces for newspapers and periodicals, Alberta's self-esteem is low, and her inexperience makes her prey to the casual approaches of predatory men. Relationships, when they happen, are neither easy nor happy. Feeling her talent beginning to suffer and her freedom stagnating, Alberta faces a struggle to survive. After its publication in 1931, Alberta and Freedom established itself as an immediate classic and Alberta Selmer as one of the century's great anti-heroines. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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