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Laddar... Alberte och Jakob (1926)av Cora Sandel
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. When you're young and you're frustrated by your emotions, your inability to make the world work the way you think it should, life can seem unbearably unjust. You may even think of taking your life to end all this hurting, and even succeed at it, as did my own poor sister. But you may get a glimpse of the drabber, infinitely more hopeless lives of older, saddened and resigned people who despite all that, go "back to it" day after day, step by step, until it's ended, and realize that there it is, life, to be met full on and made the best of. That's what Alberta's life is, in the stiflingly patriarchal small-town society in which she exists in northern Norway. Insightful and moving. ( ) Alberta and Jacob are brother and sister, living in a Norwegian city inside the Arctic circle with their unhappy parents. Their father, the magistrate, has taken out a huge loan to pay off debts. Money is so short that the family cannot even afford the fuel to heat the house properly during the long, dark winter, and their main diet is gruel. Alberta, an intelligent young woman, has been taken out of school to help her mother in the house because money must be spent so that Jacob, who would much rather leave, can matriculate and take his rightful place in the middle class. The book, first published in the twenties, is based on Sandel's own life. There are beautiful descriptions of the eerie winter landscape, and the summer, with its long, long days and celebrations. Sandel delineates the social structure of the town: who can socialise together, who must be listened to, expectations of behaviour. It is a rigid system. Alberta's friend, Beda, is known for speaking coarsely, like a "country person" and Beda's mother associates with the wives of shopkeepers, who are below her station, so according to the middle-class ladies of the town, their eventual misfortune is well-deserved. Beda, like Alberta, seems trapped. It sounds bleak, but Alberta will escape. Read during a trip to N Norway, which undoubtedly brings the dark, bleak world of the teenage 'heroine' to life. I absolutely loved this book and the descriptions of Alberta's feelings as she struggles to survive in a middle class home under the eagle eye of disapproving, disappointed Mama. Her walks with Papa almost lead to meaningful conversation ...but not quite: "She and Papa repeated the same words that they had repeated countless times before. They would turn back and go home, nothing had changed, everything was just as hopeless and just as oppressive." And what does Alberta even want? "Not knowing brought unrest and a giddy sensation under her heart. She existed like a negative of herself." But despite the details being blurred, "She imagined somehere open, free, bathed in sunshine. And a throng of people, none of them her relatives, none of whom could criticize her appearance and character, and to whom she was not responsible for being other than herself." But life goes on - the darkness, the intense cold, the poverty, the disapproval, whether she hangs back shyly or consorts with "the wrong sort." I adored it and am reading the second in the trilogy. Alberta is a teenage girl living in the far north of Norway. She is painfully shy to the point of being practically mute both out in town and at home. She blushes at the drop of a hat and hides from everyone. Her exacting mother is constantly frustrated with her and her father is too preoccupied with his own money problems to take an interest in her. At the point we meet her, she is done with the schooling her parents can afford and supposed to be learning domestic skills like the other girls her age, something she is hopeless at. She has no desire to be a part of the community or find a husband. The only person she openly loves is her brother, Jacob, who escapes their town as a sailor after disappointing his parents’ hope that he will find a scholarly career. Alberta is also cold – physically cold. She sneaks behind her mother’s back to drink more than her share of coffee – gulping down the scalding liquid for a moment of warmth. She sneaks coal when her mother is out to build a fire in her room. She runs as fast and hard as she can outside, hoping the physical activity will warm her up. It is all to no avail. The setting of northern Norway is a character in this book – the constant dark and cold of the winter and the round the clock sun in the summer that gives the only short bursts of warmth and with it brings a few characters Alberta’s age home from school in the south. Even with the people her age who try to be friendly to her, Alberta can’t manage to string together more than a few words. With that bleak description and unsympathetic main character, you may be surprised to hear that I LOVED this book. It is the start of a trilogy about Alberta and I had wish-listed the next two books after reading about ten pages and then purchased them before finishing. I’m not sure what it was, but I just loved the writing and description. I also really liked the awkward Alberta. I certainly was never as shy to the extreme as she is, but I could sympathize with many of the feelings she has. She’s trapped in that age and circumstance where she’s not an adult yet but not a child either. She also has no interest in staying in her town but no vision for an alternative. I’m excited to have found another Norwegian author that I love and looking forward to the rest of this semi-autobiographical trilogy. Original Publication Date: 1926 Author’s nationality: Norwegian Original language: Norwegian, translated to English in 1962, trans. by Elizabeth Rokkan Length: 220 pages Rating: 5 stars In the far north of Norway Alberta lives in a small town with its bourgeoisie, hypocrisy, gossip and petty scandals. She is not happy about this, torn between despising her surroundings and wanting to fit in. A few of the characters defy these attitudes, among them Jacob, Alberta's brother, and the only one she truly loves. She longs to escape to the south, at the same time realising she will fit in even less with the bourgeoisie there. After her brother leaves home, there seems even less to live for, but a small spark of tenacious hope keeps her going. Undoubtedly bleak, but honest and so well described that it can't fail to resonate with most of us. I do hope things work out for Alberta in the next two books in the trilogy. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Inga b©œcker har f©Ætt en s©Ædan h©Þngiven skara l©Þsare som b©œckerna om Alberte. N©Þr de f©œrsta g©Ængen kom ut i Sverige (mellan 1927-1940) talade man om ett Cora Sandel-s©Þllskap: en stor grupp unga kvinnor som identifierade sig starkt med Alberte, som tyckte att de kunde k©Þnna igen sig i hennes liv och upplevelser. B©œckernas osedvanliga f©œrm©Æga att skapa inlevelse och dess djupa allm©Þnm©Þnsklighet har gjort dem till en av de verkligt stora och tidl©œsa klassikerna - de har betecknats som ett av v©Þrldslitteraturens mest levande kvinnoportr©Þtt. Cora Sandel skildrar i de tre delarna Albertes uppv©Þxt i en inst©Þngd och borgerlig milj©œ i Nordnorge vid sekelskiftet, hennes uppbrott och m©œtet med det fria och bohemiska konstn©Þrslivet i Paris och till sist den krok F©Æ iga v©Þgen fram till f©œrverkligandet av f©œrfattardr©œmmarna. Hon g©œr det ytterligt m©Æleriskt och med en stillsam och underfundig humor. Den livfulla skildringen i Alberte och friheten av Paris vid sekelskiftet med dess m©Ængskiftande karakt©Þrer och dess umb©Þranden ger ber©Þttelsen en historisk klangbotten och skapar en m©Þktig tidsf©Þrg fr©Æn en dynamisk period i Paris historia. Men fr©Þmst ©Þr b©œckerna om Alberte en ber©Þttelse om frihetsl©Þngtan, konstn©Þrsdr©œmmar, om att som kvinna under det tidiga 1900-talet skapa sig ett eget utrymme - och att ha r©Þtt att g©œra det. Att l©Þsa 2Alberteserien2 ©Þr verkligen att bli delaktig i ett helt liv. Alberte stiger fram i olika faser av sitt liv och man f©Ær f©œlja henne fr©Æn n©Þr hon som ung kvinna g©Ær och fryser i Nordnorge och funderar ©œver hur hon ska komma undan mammans str©Þnga och missn©œjda blickar, tills hon en dag faktiskt - efter mycket knog - tar sin r©Þtt i sina egna h©Þnder. Perspektivet ©Þr alltid Albertes men man kan ana en ber©Þttarr©œst som befinner sig p©Æ st©œrre avst©Ænd, en ber©Þttarr©œst med brokiga livserfarenheter som hon ingjutit i den blyga Alberte. Cora Sandel var 46 ©Ær n©Þr hon debuterade med Alberte och Jakob och hon l©Þr ha sagt att det tog henne ett helt liv att skriva b©œckerna om Alberte. Och visst kan man l©Þsa in flera paralleller till Cora Sandels eget liv, till det yttre finns m©Ænga likheter. Men Alberte ©Þr framf©œr allt en uppdiktad person skapad av en stor f©œrfattarinna vars samtliga b©œcker har f©œrm©Ætt fascinera b©Æde m©Þn och kvinnor i flera decennier.©vers©Þttare: Gun-Britt Sundstr©œm [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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