The Son Avenger
Sigrid Undset
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0679755527
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Language: English
Publish: 803977200000
ClassicsEuropean LiteratureFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiteratureMedievalNovelsRomance
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.