These two novels describing the life in the Middle Ages became international bestsellers at that time, among which Kristen loveland's Daughter was especially popular. According to alfred nobel's last wish, the literary prize should be awarded to "the first-class writers with idealistic tendencies", and Undset's works seem to fall into this somewhat flexible category. But what fascinates readers all over the world is not the idealistic tendency in the text, but her as a great
The narrator's narrative genius. Before she won the Nobel Prize, her works were translated into several most influential languages. After 1928, almost all the big words have translated versions of her works. Today, 70 years later, her works are still circulating all over the world, with new readers from generation to generation.
Undset's parents have a deep relationship with Rome. Actually 1882 when her parents lived in Rome, she should have been born there. But just before she was born, her father suddenly became seriously ill, so her parents rushed back to her mother's home in Kellenburg, where sigrid was born. However, Undset felt strongly that her real birthplace should be Rome, so when she stayed in Rome on 1909, she followed her parents' footsteps and revisited her old place.
The unexpected encounter with southern Europe means a lot to her. She soon made many friends among Scandinavian artists and writers in Rome. In the interaction with others, she becomes more cheerful, outgoing and lively.
In those years, Sigrid Undset seemed to have some personal religious experiences from time to time. In all her works, people can feel her keen insight into the mysteries of life that can neither be explained by reason nor common sense. Behind her cool, almost cruel realism, there is always something that cannot be answered. This understanding of mystery seems to come from one's religious experience. In any case, the crisis changed her view of Christianity. She no longer believes that man created God, but gradually believes that God created man. The Protestant Lutheran Church in Norway where she was baptized was not her choice. 1924 1 1 In June, she joined the Roman Catholic Church and received comprehensive guidance from the local Catholic priest in her parish. She is 42 years old.
marry
In Rome, she met the Norwegian painter Anders Carstad, and she married him two or three years later. At that time, she was 30 years old, and it is very likely that he was her first lover. Svarstad is nine years older than her, married, with a wife and three children in Norway. Their meeting must be the type of love at first sight, but it took Walstad nearly three years to get divorced.
They got married on 19 12 and then stayed in London for six months. Wolstad painted there, and Undset devoted herself to studying English art and literature, which was of decisive significance for the rest of her life. After leaving London, they returned to Rome. 19 13 June, sigrid's first child was born there. This is a boy named after his father.
Whether from the perspective of people or women, marriage and children born later are of great significance to Undset and sigrid. But for this creative writer, this is a serious dilemma. From the year of marriage to 19 19, she gave birth to three children and had a large and busy family to take care of. Including three children born to Wallstad's ex-wife. These years have been difficult for sigrid. Her second child is a mentally retarded daughter, and Svarstad's mentally retarded son lives with them. She manages this huge family with an open and busy attitude and entertains new and old friends.
At the same time, she continued to write at night when everyone else was asleep. During this period, she finished her last realistic novels and short stories. She also participated.
19 19, she moved to lillehammer, a town in the Goudron valley in southeastern Norway, with her two children, when she was preparing to give birth to her third child. Their original plan was to let her have a rest in Lillehammer, and then once Wallstad packed up their new home, she moved back to cristiana. However, the situation did not develop as expected.
In fact, their marriage broke up. In August 2009, sigrid undset gave birth to his third child in Lillehammer. She decided to settle in Lillehammer, and her tall and beautiful new house "BiecqueBaker" was completed two years later. The property includes three tall and solemn traditional Norwegian wooden houses and a big garden with a fence, which can enjoy the charming scenery of the town and surrounding countryside.
Escape from life
After the marriage broke up, Sigrid Undset was mature enough to create her masterpiece. From 1920 to 1927, Christine loveland's three-volume Daughter was first published, followed by Ma Wan's four-volume Master. At this creative stage, she is still obsessed with finding the meaning of life and seeking answers from the Christian God. As she said, "He led me in the right direction." At the end of this creative period, the creation of sigrid and Undset entered a relatively quiet stage. After 1929, she completed a series of novels set in Oslo at that time, which were strongly Catholic. She chose a creative theme from Norway's narrow but interesting Catholic circle. She also published some influential historical works, which undoubtedly enhanced people's understanding of Norwegian history. In addition, she also translated some Icelandic Sakya into Norwegian and published some literary essays, mainly
1934 published the autobiographical novel Eleven Years. This book tells the story of her childhood in Kristiania, describes her smart and caring family, and depicts her sick father. This is the most touching one in Norwegian history.
When she was nearly forty years old, she began to write a historical novel set in Scandinavia in the18th century. However, only the first volume of this novel, Madame Dollt, was published in 1939, and then World War II broke out. The war is doomed to make her exhausted, and she can't continue to write this series.
1940 After Germany invaded Norway in April, she was forced to flee her home. Since the early 1930s, she has been strongly opposed to Hitler and Nazism, and her books have been banned in Germany for a long time. She didn't want to be taken hostage by the Germans, so she fled to Sweden. 1940 In April, her eldest son Anders, who was only 27 years old, was killed in battle just a few kilometers away from their bakery in Biecque. He was an officer in the Norwegian army and was killed in an encounter with the German army. German troops occupied Baker and Biecque and used them as the headquarters of officers during the war.
1940, sigrid undset and her youngest son left neutral Sweden for the United States. She tirelessly wrote speeches there to defend her occupied motherland. 1945 After the liberation of Norway, she returned to her motherland, and by then she was exhausted. She lived for another four years, but never wrote another word.
At present, there are obvious signs that the younger generation in Norway are beginning to take an interest in her works. Her works reflect an individual's moral responsibility, whether for herself or by extension, for family, for nature and for all living things around us. This seems to be the reason why her works attract more and more readers today.