The Ice Palace (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

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They've found each other, and for each it's both a terrifying discovery and a relief, even as so much has been left unsaid. Tarjei Vesaas es uno de los novelistas noruegos más importantes del siglo XX, entre sus obras más famosas destaca «El palacio de hielo» que fue publicado en 1963. Gracias a esta editorial podemos disfrutar de un libro escandinavo excepcional, con una edición inmejorable y una nota de editor que nos vuelve a brindar un cierre encomiable a la par que maravilloso a la lectura.

Create character profiles using interesting adjectives (create a new mysterious character who Ivan will meet in the forest) And she didn't say a word about hiding." The Ice Palace is full of what wasn't said, and especially of Siss reacting to and dealing with what remains unspoken. The concise, lyrical narrative evokes the Japanese haiku style, where the misleading simplicity of the text is in fact overflowing with symbolism and metaphors worthy of close reading, making of this brief novel a gem in form of a prose poem. Despite all that cold and ice, there is burning brightly the glow of a friendship, if only a brief one, that cascades a warm lyrical emotion over Vasaas's eerie and frozen landscape. Along with the vivid descriptions of the land, the observations look mostly at Siss, who not only has to deal with the vanishing and loss of Unn, but also coming to terms with the realisation that the fun and magical elements of childhood are slowly turning from liquid to vapour. Basically, she is a tween.see further in Reidar Kjær’s article “Look to Norway? Gay Issues and Mental Health Across the Atlantic Ocean” included in The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives, CRC Press, 2003 p. 59). Some day she'll tell me.Ich weiß nicht, wie diese Anziehungskraft zwischen den Mädchen in den 60er-Jahren rezipiert wurde (oder was Vesaas Intentionen waren), aber aus heutiger Sicht ist sie bemerkenswert, diese Mischung aus Neugier, Bewunderung und Erotik, die sich auf Unn konzentriert. Siss hat (noch) kein Vokabular für diese neuen Dinge, die sie da fühlt. Sie weiß nur, dass sie Unn unbedingt treffen muss. Vesaas schafft es, diese Intensität und Dringlichkeit, die die Pubertät vieler zeichnen, einzufangen. Es wurde auch an mich herangetragen, dass Das Eisschloss in Norwegen mittlerweile als queerer Klassiker gefeiert wird – das wundert mich nicht.

Reads like Hemingway--a simple, clipped style. In the beginning, an 11-year-old girl named Siss, reigning queen in the schoolhouse, is beguiled by the mysterious newcomer Unn. Gets invited to her house. They go to Unn's bedroom and talk about things 11-year-old girl's talk about, but the weird part is the power of their attraction to each other's auras. Attention also focuses on Siss as the last to speak to Unn, and she at first lets slip that something may have been said of significance, but when she comes under pressure refuses to say more - in a sense justified since all she knew was that Unn had a secret, not what the secret was, and the main "happening" was the fierce spark between the two girls, and the promise to meet the next day.

The popular girl is devastated by the disappearance of the other girl and essentially takes on her personality as a form of grieving. She abandons her old friends and stands against the wall at recess. Her teacher, her parents and the deceased girl’s aunt all try in various ways to help her out of this depression: a kind of emotional ice palace. He ran the business from home, with a typewriter as his only equipment. Soon, however, the company started to flourish, enabling him to employ some staff – his first editor was Muriel Spark. He was able to bring some of the very best international literature to what was a very insular British market. The story opens with Sally Carrol Harper idly surveying a sleepy Southern day. The imagery of the opening paragraph, full of dappled sunlight and warm, lazy inertia, contrasts sharply with the cold rigidity suggested by the story’s title. It is a contrast that Fitzgerald will explore throughout the story as he examines the cultural and social differences between the North and the South. As the story progresses, we learn that Sally is engaged to a Northerner, a fact that her friends view with a sense of betrayal and alarm. Her friend Clark worries that Sally’s fiancé would “be a lot different from us, every way.” Sally, however, worries that her ambitions are incompatible with the sleepy pace of Tarleton, Georgia. She wants to “go places and see people” and to live where “things happen on a big scale.” She describes herself as having two sides, and this duality is a major theme of “The Ice Palace.”