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Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter
Author: Sigrid Undset
Hugh Walpole says: ". . .I believe it to be no exaggeration to say that Kristin, the daughter of Lavran, is one of the great world creations of fiction, and takes her place with Anna Karenin, Emma Bovary, Tess, and Eugenie Grandet. She is literally a woman of all time. . . the motives that move her are universal and eternal. — "As you read you ...  more »
ISBN: 211231
Publication Date: 1930
Pages: 945
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Publisher: Cassell and Company, Limited
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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maura853 avatar reviewed Kristin Lavransdatter on + 542 more book reviews
Doing something I've never done before: changing horses mid-stream, and switching to the 1995 Tiina Nunnally translation.

I'm revisiting a book that I read (and loved) almost 40 years ago, and I was enjoying it again, but increasingly conscious that the text seemed curiously stilted, and sometimes downright hard to follow, indulging in so many flourishes and convoluted phrasing. I wasn't sure whether this was down to Undset, or the translators, but a bit of research answered that: supposedly, the translators insisted on a cod-medieval style, ignored some of Undset's more interesting stylistic choices, and generally "improved" it.

That settled it (that, and the fact that the Nunnally translation is available on Kindle, and I was beginning to suffer serious eye-and wrist strain from a massive volume, with very tiny print): I'm going with Nunnally, which I have sampled, and it's a much clearer, crisper translation.


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