By the time she wrote these novels and several others I will be looking at in this series, Undset was world famous. Paul Selmer’s story begins in The Wild Orchid (1929) and continues in The Burning Bush (1930), two novels that Sigrid Undset published together under the title The Winding Road.
Indeed, if you read all the works of Sigrid Undset, you will have gained a profound education of your historical imagination. You will have to do some chronological reorienting to grasp Undset’s wise imaginings. For the modern mind is enslaved by its concept of freedom.įor young readers of this piece, your patience, please. It’s 1905 in Norway, and the world we know in 2010 is already happening:īirth control-living together-adultery-divorce-broken homes-free sex and free love-free thinking-socialism-modernist theology-feminism-democracy-college loans (!)-public schools and educationism-the new morality-the end of religion-scientism-“that horrible medievalism”-spiritualism and new age theologies-political correctness-anti-Catholicism-mass media madness-mental slavery-the Servile State-the Catholic Renascence of the 20th century.Īn “intellectual” in 2010 would be just as much at home with Paul Selmer’s divorced, modern parents, members of the Norwegian upper class, as they are with the academics and government functionaries of our time. Sigrid Undset: The Slavery of the Modern Mind Religion and Literature sponsors and publishes the annual Religion and Literature lecture at the University of Notre Dame, hosts special issues with guest editors, and publishes forum sections dedicated to key topics and issues in religion and literature, broadly construed.įor more information visit our website at.
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