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Lie, Jonas

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Lie, Jonas (Lauritz Idemil)

(born Nov. 6, 1833, Hokksund in Eiker, Nor.—died July 5, 1908, Stavern) Norwegian novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Visionary or Pictures from Nordland (1870), with his wife's collaboration. Later novels include The Barque “Future” (1872), One of Life's Slaves (1883), and the classic The Family at Gilje (1883), which deals with the position of women. He sought to reflect in his writings the nature, folk life, and social spirit of his country. With Henrik Ibsen, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, and Alexander Kielland (1849–1906), he is considered one of “the four great ones” of 19th-century Norwegian literature.


Lie, Jonas 

Born Nov. 6, 1833, in Eiker, near Modum; died July 5, 1908, in Stavern. Norwegian writer.

Lie was a lawyer by education. In 1866 he published a collection entitled Poems, which reflected the influence of H. Wergeland. He achieved success with his novel The Visionary, or Pictures From Nordland (1870), in which elements of reality are interwoven with folk fantasies. The central theme of the novel The Pilot and His Wife (1874) is marriage in a bourgeois society. Social conflicts are at the heart of the realistic novels One of Life’s Slaves (1883, translated into Russian in 1894), The Family at Gilje (1883), and The Commander’s Daughters (1886, translated into Russian in 1895). He was the author of the plays Thomas Ross (1878), Adam Schrader (1879), and Lindelin (1897), as well as fairy tales (the Trold collections, 1891–92) and the novel East of the Sun (1905).

WORKS

Samlede verker, vols. 1–14. Copenhagen-Kristiania, 1902–04.
In Russian translation:
Izbr. proizv., vols. 1–2. St. Petersburg, 1895.
Pozhiznenno osuzhdennyi. Preface by L. Lungina. Moscow, 1962.
Khutor Gil’e and Maisa Iuns. Preface by V. Admoni. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966.

REFERENCES

Garborg A., Jonas Lie: En udviklingshistorie, 3rd ed. Oslo, 1925.
Hauge, I., Jonas Lies diktning. Oslo, 1970.


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