Hugo Kosterka Livres

GÖsta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the drink, torn by conflicting aims -- the charm and deceit, love and laziness in him fighting for supremacy. He teams together with a group of sometimes dissolute, often well-meaning freemen of their district to evict the seemingly mad owner of a great rambling house at the centre of its own semi-feudal estate, Ekeby. This group call themselves the cavaliers. In her telling of what happens next, LagerlÖf creates a strange fusion between the realism of authors like Ibsen and Strindberg and the mythic force of the Scandinavian sagas. GÖsta's great loves, his enemies, those to whom he teaches lessons about life, either intentionally or accidentally, and others whose stories he has only a small part in, all start up from the page into a strange, elemental clarity, creating a sprawling mosaic of romance and realism. This first novel from the deeply original mind of the 1909 Nobel Prize winner weaves a balance between everyday rural reality and underlying dreams and fable to create a patchwork of extraordinary complexity and looming fascination, in which the reader can detect the author's passion for the stories of her country, and her sceptical warmth for the troubled human spirit.

When Jenny was first published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral — “this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know.” The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration but ultimately betrays her own ambitions and ideals. After falling into an affair with the married father of a would-be suitor, Jenny has a baby out-of- wedlock and decides to raise the child on her own. Undset’ s portrayal of a woman struggling toward independence and fulfillment is written with an unflinching, clear-eyed honesty that renders her story as compelling today as it was nearly a century ago. This new translation by Tiina Nunnally captures the fresh, vivid style of Undset’s writing and restores passages omitted from the only previous edition to appear in English, which was published in 1921. Most famous for her later, historical fiction set in Catholic, medieval Scandinavia, Undset stands revealed with Jenny, her first major novel, as an unsparing, compassionate, magnificent realist, the creator of works that are at once thoroughly modern and of enduring interest.

Román na moři a na zemi. Obsáhlý dobrodružný román z prostředí rybářů a námořníku ze Skotska a severního moře.Ukazuje život námořníků a rybolov z poloviny 19. století.

Čtyřsvazkové vydání s původními dřevoryty Q.Manesa a K.Purkyně. Hlavním hrdinou románu je stárnoucí zeman Alonso Quijano, který se pomátl na rozumu ze čtený rytířských románů. Proto se rozhodl, že se stane rytířem. Sobě i svému koni vymyslel jména a určil si ženu, pro níž bude konat své skutky. Během první výpravy je jedním hospodským pasován na rytíře. Při další výpravě získá sluhu jménem Sanchu Panzu.Ten se s ním vydává na cesty jen proto, že mu Alonso slíbil ostrov. Následuje řada příběhů, které jsou motivem cesty, kdy poblázněný idealista stále znovu naráží na realitu.