{"product_id":"sigrid-undset-a-study-in-christian-realism","title":"Sigrid Undset: A Study in Christian Realism","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy A. H. Winsnes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The realism of Christianity \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eis indomitable,” Sigrid Undset once wrote. The same could be said of her own realism. From incisive novels of modern life to richly detailed medieval sagas, Undset was peerless in her literary treatment of human life. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSigrid Undset: A Study in Christian Realism\u003c\/i\u003e follows Undset from childhood to adulthood, from agnosticism to Catholicism, and from fledgling author to one of the twentieth century’s true visionaries—Catholic or otherwise. By marrying biography to literary appreciation, A. H. Winsnes shows how Undset could process her personal experiences and interests through her writing and thereby put them into “an eternal perspective, in relation to the divine order.” Connecting Undset to her peers in twentieth-century Catholic literature—including Chesterton and Greene, Bernanos and Mauriac—Winsnes underscores her ability to show, like they did, men and women as the “architects of their own misfortune,” but also to complement that vision with depictions of those same people as participants in their own salvation, inherently drawn toward goodness and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA writer seems to see in advance the gloom through which we must pass—\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003ethe dark places\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003ci\u003e—and seeks to find a way out. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSigrid Undset)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA personally perceptive compilation and critically astute interpretation—the latter, as expressed by Undset herself, “certainly correct”—of the stages of Undset’s life and work, Winsnes’s \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSigrid Undset: A Study in Christian Realism\u003c\/i\u003e makes the compelling case for its subject as “the Christian realist \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epar excellence\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndreas Hofgaard Winsnes \u003c\/b\u003e(1889–1972) was a Norwegian scholar of literature and history. Author of numerous books and essays, professor at the University of Oslo, and a founder of the Norwegian Academy, he was influential in the renaissance of Christian humanism in twentieth-century Scandinavia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \u0026amp; E-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 288\u003c\/span\u003epp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE-book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eImmediately following purchase, an .epub file and a .mobi (Kindle) file are available for download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685950637\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53100033638767,"sku":"978-1685950637","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"E-book","offer_id":53100033671535,"sku":"978-1685950638","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--640.jpg?v=1781124695","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/sigrid-undset-a-study-in-christian-realism","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}