{"id":9441,"date":"2015-02-02T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2015-02-02T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:04:14","slug":"me-on-marta-oulie-sigrid-undsets-first-published-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/02\/me-on-marta-oulie-sigrid-undsets-first-published-novel.html","title":{"rendered":"Me on “Marta Oulie,” Sigrid Undset’s First Published Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at the University Bookman:<\/p>\n

Marta Oulie<\/em> opens with the confession, \u201cI have been unfaithful to my husband.\u201d So it comes as no surprise that the novel depicts a woman\u2019s sexual awakening: the obsessive thoughts of him, the thrill at his touch. \u201cI suddenly felt scared and didn\u2019t dare look at the scrap of chest visible below his throat, but then couldn\u2019t resist glancing at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

What might be more surprising is that this is the sensual passion of a virgin for the man who will become her husband. Like Sigrid Undset\u2019s best-known novel, Kristin Lavransdatter<\/a>\u2014<\/em>a trilogy set in the fourteenth century and published in the 1920s\u2014this earlier and much slimmer book, in its first English translation since publication in 1907, depicts a marriage of untutored hearts. The match is made by Eros, the laughing god; with time his laughter turns from delight to mockery. Both Marta and her husband Otto must discover whether they can submit to a gentler god while they still have time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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