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Tarjei Vesaas

Born

in Vinje, Norway

August 20, 1897

Died

March 15, 1970

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such as death, guilt, angst, and other deep and intractable human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans (Menneskebonn), but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle (Det store spelet). His mastery of the nynorsk language, landsmål (see Norwegian language), has contributed to its acceptance as a medium of world class litera ...more

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Tarjei Vesaas’s books

Average rating: 3.94 · 27,694 ratings · 3,723 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Ice Palace 3.85 avg rating — 15,803 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, Michael Barnes (Translation), Torbjorn Stoverud (Translation) 4.13 avg rating — 8,719 ratings — published 1957 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kimen 3.88 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 1940 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring Night by Tarjei Vesaas, Kenneth G. Chapman (Translation) 3.59 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1954 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boat in the Evening by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (Translation) 3.73 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 1968 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridges by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1966 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House in the Dark 4.06 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1945 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Det store spelet 4.24 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1934 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wiosenna noc / Zamek z lodu by Tarjei Vesaas, Maria Gołębiewska-Bijak (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 148 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tusten og andre noveller by Tarjei Vesaas, Jannie Jensen (Translator), Arild Batzer (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 91 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tarjei Vesaas

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Nina Neumannová (Translator)

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Quotes by Tarjei Vesaas (?)

“What you want most you push away from you.
You want more than you care to admit.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Bridges

tags: relationships

364 likes

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening

tags: eyes, looking, seeing, speaking, talking

208 likes

“Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening

tags: bewilderment, confusion, mirrors, reflection

32 likes

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Polls

June 2016 New School Classic Poll

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

38 votes, 18.1%

1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages

35 votes, 16.7%

1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 246 pages

22 votes, 10.5%

1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages

19 votes, 9.0%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages

18 votes, 8.6%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

17 votes, 8.1%

1982, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 448 pages

12 votes, 5.7%

1995, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, 334 pages

11 votes, 5.2%

1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages

9 votes, 4.3%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 424 pages

7 votes, 3.3%

1988, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, 649 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

1971, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 569 pages

5 votes, 2.4%

1957, The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, 200 pages

4 votes, 1.9%

1958, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages

4 votes, 1.9%

1987, Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif, 627 pages

3 votes, 1.4%

210 total votes

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