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Marta Oulie
by Sigrid Undset
In my early twenties, I fell in love with Sigrid Undset while reading [b:Kristin Lavransdatter|6217|Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)|Sigrid Undset|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388289230l/6217._SY75_.jpg|1370150]. Absorbed, I read it while rocking my baby son to sleep, my toddler daughter napping nearby. I suppose I could’ve napped, too, but instead I balanced the heavy book on one arm and read for as long as I could.
This novella’s Marta, though a decade older than I was when I first read Undset, is also a mother of young children. She too tries to carve out (head) space for herself. (Unlike me, Marta has a maid to care for her children, so it's more her relationship with her husband and her dissatisfaction with conventional expectations that are the issues.) Her thoughts are set forth honestly and sometimes brutally in her “diary.”
Undset wrote this short work when she was in her early-twenties, before she was a wife and mother. It’s an impressive feat and I wonder how I might’ve related to it if I could've read it all those years ago.
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The translated novels I’ve read recently have been published by Minnesota presses, including this one. Kudos to Minnesota.
This novella’s Marta, though a decade older than I was when I first read Undset, is also a mother of young children. She too tries to carve out (head) space for herself. (Unlike me, Marta has a maid to care for her children, so it's more her relationship with her husband and her dissatisfaction with conventional expectations that are the issues.) Her thoughts are set forth honestly and sometimes brutally in her “diary.”
Undset wrote this short work when she was in her early-twenties, before she was a wife and mother. It’s an impressive feat and I wonder how I might’ve related to it if I could've read it all those years ago.
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The translated novels I’ve read recently have been published by Minnesota presses, including this one. Kudos to Minnesota.