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Title: Jenny by SIGRID UNDSET, TIINA NUNNALLY ISBN: 1-58642-050-X Publisher: Zoland Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Early Undset novel
Comment: Later, Sigrid Undset would become a peer of Dostoevsky -- see Mitzi Brunsdale's comments on Undset's magnificent quartet, The Master of Hestviken, in her 1988 study. But Undset's early novel Jenny shows the Norwegian Nobel Prize winner as the peer of Turgenev. Jenny is worthy of comparison with something like Turgenev's "First Love" as a tale of the loss of youth and of eros (present or absent), but from the point of view of a woman who is not in love, rather than the point of view of the man who is in love. There is a suggestion, too, of Turgenev's characteristic interest in cultured, somewhat amoral, and vaguely political artist-poet types who have left their northern homelands (for Turgenev, Russia; for Undset, Norway) for southern Europe.
Emphatically Jenny is not to be thought of as a Turgenev imitation, though. For one thing, Undset's novel deals -- in some of its best pages -- with its heroine's maternal yearnings and grief, something one wouldn't look for in Turgenev. The Russian had a somewhat effeminate fondness for poetic melancholy (amusing satirized by Dostoevsky in Demons); in Jenny, "might have been" hurts people more.
There are flat patches of descriptive writing -- here, she is no rival of the Turgenev who wrote the lovely outdoors anecdote "Bezhin Meadow" -- and one must admit that one could become impatient with these rootless would-be artists, as one was meant to, I suppose. In later works, Undset achieved a greater synthesis of romanticism and stern, classical truthfulness.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well written
Comment: "Jenny" is one of the best books I have ever read. In the beginning Jenny has it all, but by doing one mistake after the other, she ruins her life.
I think that Undset does a very good job when she is describing Jenny's situation. Jenny meets a young man that she starts going out with. He takes her home to meet his parents. Jenny does not get on very well with his mother, while she gets on better with his father. Some time later she finds herself pregnant, and she knows that the father of her child is not her boyfriend. His father is the father of her unborn child.
Jenny gets herself into trouble time after time, and she is not one of those people that get away with things. I guess you have already realized that this book has a very sad ending.
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Title: Gunnar's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Sigrid Undset, Arthur G. Chater ISBN: 014118020X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin)) by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally ISBN: 0141182350 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Axe (The Master of Hestviken/Sigrid Undset, Vol 1) by Sigrid Undset ISBN: 0679752730 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics.) by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally ISBN: 0141181281 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Snake Pit (The Master of Hestviken/Sigrid Undset, Vol 2) by Sigrid Undset ISBN: 0679755543 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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