Vesaas spent most of his life writing and living at his home farm, where he died in March 15, 1970. As with his poetry, Vesaas moved to a more realist approach in his stories. In the 40’s Vesaas started to focus mostly on writing poetry, and began with the more traditionalist style, but moved later to a more modernist style. In 1945 Vesaas wrote HUSET I MØRKRET, House in the Dark, which was about Norway’s struggle against the invasion by Germany. These were tied closely to the Nynorsk literature (one of the two official languages of Norway). Vesaas started his writing early in the 1920’s when he published his first works, MENNESKEBONN (1923), SENDEMANN HUSKULD (1924) and GUDS BUSTADER (1925). In 1917 to 18 he went to folk high school where he was educated, then traveled abroad, mostly Germany, from 1920 to 27 when he returned home. He is from a farmer family, with a long history in the area, where his family home had been passed from father to son for three centuries.
He was born in his family home of three hundred years, on a farm in Vinje in Telemark. By turns frightening, beautiful, confounding, and full of mystery, it is a world we come to see more vividly through Mattis’s eyes.Tarjei Vesaas was a novelist, short story writer, and poet, who gained fame before and after WWII in his homeland of Norway and other European countries.
In The Birds, Norway’s most celebrated writer of the twentieth century allows us to rediscover the world. De vogels : Vesaas, Tarjei, Mars, Marin: : Books Select Your Cookie Preferences We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. But when Jørgen and Hege become lovers, Mattis finds the safety of his familial life threatened and his jealousy quickly spirals. When he finally sets himself up as a ferryman, the only passenger he manages to bring across the lake is a lumberjack, Jørgen. Eking out a modest living knitting sweaters, Hege encourages her brother to find work to ease their financial burdens, but his attempts come to nothing.
The Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled young man living in a small house in the Norwegian countryside with his sister Hege.
“Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds- it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard
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