The Birds
A Classics, Scandinavian Literature, Fiction book. This gave him another opportunity to use one of those words that hung...
With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by his lonely older sister, Hege. Their routine, isolated existence is interrupted when a lumberjack arrives at their lakeside cottage and falls in love with Hege, leaving Mattis fearful that he will lose his sister. The careful translation from the Norwegian underscores Vesaas's rare sensitivity in recording Mattis's often insightful view of his world. With a limited understanding of the unpredictable power of nature, Mattis nonetheless turns to the elements to discover the answers—with unsettling results.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 234 pages
- ISBN: 9780720611434 / 720611431
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Han stod der hengde med armane. Kva skulle han fortelje henne? Ho visste ikkje kvifor ho var til. Og ho som var s skarp. Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things. Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds - , . Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds
Everyone Like a gentle ripple across calming waters, or a songbird taking flight in the early morning sunrise, Tarjei Vesaas writes a delicately structured story of two siblings living a serene existence in rural Norway. Mattis is a sweet natured simpleton who burns the days away drifting off into his own world, whilst older sister Hege knits... She looked at him as at a grown-p now, and then she said something: 'You're lucky, seeing things the way you do. I don't, I can tell you.'She had stopped now, wasn't simply rushing off to her eight-petalled roses. Today once again she had heard a tone in his voice that made her pause.'How do you see things, then?' he asked, forgetting...
