She sees herself as the most sinful of creatures, and the cause of all the woe around her. (It is never explained, however, why Kristin is so fertile now, when she never got pregnant in the past.)Īlthough Kristin seems totally absorbed in her children (to Erlend’s dismay), she never gives up her overriding absorption in herself, and indeed, her arrogance seems to grow in this volume. The story picks up with Kristin married to Erlend, and at the mercy of an era without birth control. In Part I, we had “Fiddler on the Roof.” In Part II, we’ve got “Gone With the Wind.” We also have less emphasis on biological nature and more on human nature. In Volume II we come to learn the answers to quite a few of the mysteries left unresolved in Volume I. October: The Wreath (pages 1-291) (See my post here) Participants are to post their reviews of each section around the end of the month, and we will compare notes. It’s available from Penguin in both omnibus and three individual editions.”
I signed up for the Kristin Lavransdatter Readalong, sponsored by Richard of Caravana de Recuerdos and Emily from Evening All Afternoon.Īs Emily pointed out, “we’ll be reading the Tina Nunnally translation, which won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize in 2001 and apparently restored a number of the more experimental passages, which had been excised from the original English translation.
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