Auf Gottes Wegen

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen - und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten.

Genres: Classics, Nobel Prize

296 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1889

About the author

Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit."
Bjørnson is the author of the lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet".

Reviews

[Dora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Norwegian author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903 "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". In God's way was written in 1889 and it was one of the few works of this author that I could actually find printed. It's quite amazing when you think of this massive amount of time.
As the title suggests, it's a deeply religious novel, but not as harshly moralizing as I expected. Which was good, because I was interested more in the writing than the message.
The story is quite minimalist following the life choices of two siblings, boy and girl, and of another boy. Their paths are dominated by either accepting religion or denying it.
Interesting to me was that the structure was less important than the form of the story. You could tell that the shapes and combinations of words had a higher priority than the grand message and that led to a heaviness of the text. I wish I would have been able to read it in Norwegian, but happy as it is too.
Always interesting to read something different, to see distant societies and customs, and experience novelty by going back in time like this.

[Ivar Volmar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ühest küljest hea skandinaavia klassikalise romaani näide, teisest küljest ei pruugi mitte kõik selle romaani konfliktid enam tänapäeva inimese jaoks väga kõnekad olla. Kindlasti soovitan raamatud neile, kel mingi suhe kristlusega, sest romaani põhiküsimuseks võiks pidada mõtet "Kes ikkagi on õige kristlane?"