Vie auprès du courant

by Tarjei Vesaas, Olivier Gallon (primary_contributor), Céline Romand-Monnier (translator)

Ce livre (de poèmes), Vie auprès du courant (Liv ved straumen) est l'ultime ouvrage de Tarjei Vesaas.
Il parut à l’automne 1970 aux éditions Gyldendal à Oslo quelques mois après la mort de son auteur (le 15 mars) ; il en lut les épreuves à l’hôpital.
Vesaas y apparaît lui-même, comme dans ses œuvres romanesques, cependant peut-être encore plus « nu », plus solitaire. Un don véritable...

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such as death, guilt, angst, and other deep and intractable human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans (Menneskebonn), but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle (Det store spelet). His mastery of the nynorsk language, landsmål (see Norwegian language), has contributed to its acceptance as a medium of world class literature.

Reviews

[Jeanne Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quelques poèmes très touchants. Celui où "sa montagne" vient à sa rencontre sur le sentier, celui de retour de la pêche, et celui où le lac lèche les trois pierres, la blanche, la grise et la noire.
Le plaisir de retrouver le thème de la nature, sur un ton semblable à celui de "Nuit de printemps"

[louloumaria · Rating 5 out of 5]

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