The Power of a Lie (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Johan Bojer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331487757 ISBN 13: 9781331487753

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Power of a Lie

Introduction l this is a great book. I can have no hesitation whatever in saying that. Rarely in reading a modern novel have I felt so strong a sense of reality and 'so deep an impression of motive. It would be difficult to praise too highly the power and the reticence of this story.

When I compare it with other Norwegian nov els, even the best and by the best-known writers, I feel that it transcends them in its high serious ness, and in the almost relentless strength with which its dominant idea is carried through. Its atmosphere is often wonderful, sometimes start ling, and its structure is without any fault that has betrayed itself to me.

A Of isolated scenes of beauty and pathos it has not a few, and its closeness to nature in little things fills its pages with surprises. All its characters bear the stamp of truth, and some of them are deeply impressive, especially, perhaps, that of Fru Wangen, a tragic figure of a woman, never to be forgotten as long as memory lasts.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331487757
• ISBN 13: 9781331487753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246