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Cargando... Peder Victorious (1929)por O. E. Rølvaag
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. #3 av 4 bind A coming of age immigrant narrative. When I began reading, I had no idea that this is book two of a trilogy. Now that I've read book two, I can just about guess the story in book one and book three, which I'm not going to read--not because this book was bad, but it was also not stellar. This particular book focuses its attention on Peder, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, who is straddling the line (forced by his mother, a first generation immigrant) between retaining the "old ways" and becoming assimilated. There are many conflicts, of which the largest one in this book is that of religion. This story is set in South Dakota, where there was/is a large settlement of Norwegian immigrants. In the end it seems that author has tied up everything with a nice ribbon! 325 pages 1019 Peder Victorious A Novel, by O. E. Rolvaag translated from the Norwegian by Nora O. Solum and the Author (read 23 Aug 1969) I read this as a direct result of re-reading Rolvaag's masterpiece, Giants in the Earth. I was not nearly as impressed by it as by Giants, and so decided I would not read the third volume in the trilogy, Their Father's God. But my memory of these two books is such I may yet read that third volume, if I can locate a copy . (On 28 May 2012 I did read said third volume.) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rölvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rölvaag's "vikings of the prairie"--Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans. The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rölvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong. Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rölvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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