Sigrid Undset
I want to read NOVELS that won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Which ones would you recommend?
I’ve heard of Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, and also One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I’m planning to read them but are there ones that you would recommend? I LIKE BOOKS WITH A STRONG LEAD FEMALE. Also please include a brief summary if you don’t mind.
THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Doris Lessing won last year.She is amazing and thus was she described by the Swedish Academy:”that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.”
Her famous work is The Golden Notebook.
The Golden Notebook is the story of writer Anna Wulf, the four notebooks in which she keeps the record of her life, and her attempt to tie them all together in a fifth, gold-colored notebook. After the opening realistic section, ironically called “Free Women”, the book fragments into Anna’s four notebooks, colored black, red, yellow, and blue, respectively. Each notebook is returned to four times, creating non-chronological, overlapping sections.
The black notebook is for Anna’s memories of her life in Central Africa, which inspired her own best-selling novel; the red one for her experiences with the British Communist Party; the yellow one for a fiction she writes that is based on the painful ending of her own love affair; and the blue one for recording her memories, dreams, and emotional life.
All four notebooks and the frame narrative testify to women’s struggles with the conflicts of work, sex, love, maternity, and politics. This kind of novel became popular among English writers during the 1960s. In them, the novelist is interested in the process of writing and the finished product.
Its a great book!!!
Sigrid Undset vinner av nobelprisen i 1928
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