Able to give a complete picture of Norwegian literature in two hours of lecture, was a difficult but not impossible. In fact, the clarity and the perfect synthesis of the three speakers provided a comprehensive framework for understanding the basics of Norwegian literature from its origins to the present day.

Proceed in order.
The three speakers were: Andrea Meregalli, Camilla and Giovanna Storskog Paterniti, University of Milan, Department of Linguistic Studies, Literary and Philological.
The occasion of the seminar was an interesting week of presentation of Norway, called NORWEEK010, organized by the Embassy of Norway and Innovation Norway Italy in Italy.


The Napoleone conference room.

Forget the stereotype of a Nord literature based on exploration within, on solitude of man and his difficult relationship with others. This should go beyond these stereotypes and understand the modern Norwegian literature, through the works of Henrik Ibsen that Bjørnstjerne Bjornson Nobel Prize in 1903, to reach Tarjei Vesaas or Lars Saabye Christensen. Significant are the works of Ludvig Holberg, preceding of Ibsen works, introducing the modern theater in Northern Europe. According to the speakers, the first example of a Norwegian novel is written by Camilla Collet with the work "The daughters of the Prefect" (1854).

Henrik Ibsen expresses his best as a playwright and dramatist.
Much impact on his work to have spent twenty-seven years traveling Europe outside closed circles of his country, where he met the dominant literary currents romantic and humanities anywhere in Europe. Ibsen is fighting for progress, for social and women emancipation, against ipoctite conventions of bourgeois society, strongly conditioning on free spirits and willingness to break social patterns are too rigid.
Ibsen's insistence on nationalist elements must be situated in the historical period of the author, who sees Norway under the Swedish Kingdom and the Three Crowns. In 1905, became an independent nation.
The music of Edvard Grieg's Peer Kynt play, are composed by Edvard Grieg as incidental music for Ibsen's play itself.

Bjørnstjerne Bjornson, that this year celebrates one hundred years after his departure, with the printing of certain works by Italian publishing house Hyperborea as "beyond human strength," a classic of the theater on the northern setback man religion before science.
It should be stressed that the modern Norwegian literature to speak today in the "yellow Scandinavian" and humorous and children literature", especially through the works of Erlend Loe.
To understand the modern Norwegian literature, you should read the works of Tarjei Vesaas, Sigrid Undset and Knut Hamsun.
(A.S.)

IN DEPTH

- There are three works that suggest speakers to consult in order to have an almost complete knowledge of Norwegian literature:

Renzo Pavese, Scandinavian literary Activities, Rome, Bulzoni 1988.

Various authors, from the world of legends that of Sofia, Milan, 1999 Hyperborea

Mario Gabriel, Literature of Scandinavia, Florence, Sansoni.

- Andrea Meregalli can be contacted at the University of Milan, Faculty of Humanities.

- An interesting site on Norge literature is: http://www.linguenordiche.it

- Works are published by the publishing house IPERBOREA: click

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