She did it again. Sigrid Undset. I have never encountered an author with this style. Miss Undset did indeed kill off Lavrans, and just a couple of pages later, but with another of her signature out-of-the-blue moves. Lavrans did make it home safe and he and his man ate and he and Ragnfrid talked and they put off going to bed and he gave her his wedding ring so the denouement was not completely out-of-th-blue, but after all of that this is how Miss Undset informs the reader.
She felt it--with this last ring he had wedded her again. When, [you have to turn the page]
in a little while, she sat over his lifeless body...
Excuse me, but that is out-of-the-blue. Brr-ang! The sniper fires from behind a tree. Unique. I have never encountered the like of Sigrid Undset's technique and she has done it a few times now, enough, however many it has been, that I recognized it as her technique previously. It is devastating for its sotto voce subtlety. The reader does not jump up from his seat in horror as he does in other literary works; he sits on in stunned silence. Admiration and wonder at the author's skill follows.
She felt it--with this last ring he had wedded her again. When, [you have to turn the page]
in a little while, she sat over his lifeless body...
Excuse me, but that is out-of-the-blue. Brr-ang! The sniper fires from behind a tree. Unique. I have never encountered the like of Sigrid Undset's technique and she has done it a few times now, enough, however many it has been, that I recognized it as her technique previously. It is devastating for its sotto voce subtlety. The reader does not jump up from his seat in horror as he does in other literary works; he sits on in stunned silence. Admiration and wonder at the author's skill follows.
