Crushingly, the Principal dismissively retorts: "You do realize that psychology is not a subject worthy of study".

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Initially, I wanted to read Crisis because it was mentioned and briefly discussed in the Swedish Netflix show Young Royals. For those expecting a sapphic romance novel: Crisis is not what you are looking for.She was hardly a person any longer. She existed as a kind of bundle that could be placed and positioned anywhere, but which couldn’t move on its own." Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940): definitely a seat at the head of the table for her! Reading Lagerlöf is life-changing. A good place to start is with our Lagerlöf in English series. You can thank us later!

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While Crisis is a fairly familiar story of a young woman beginning to find herself and trying to find her way to an adult future, Boye's approach is an unusual and formally creative one.These are more abstract dialogues -- the first, for example, involving a Doctor, a Theologian, and a Humanist -- and they make for a fascinating different level of discussion of the issues that Malin is grappling with. Malin is a deeply religious Christian. She is studying at a teacher's college to become an elementary school teacher. Just about all of her classes revolve around theology. Suddenly, she has a crisis of faith and wonders what it means to be faithful to God. Malin comes into conflict with her religious consciousness and thinks of herself as selfish. The protagonist of Crisis is Malin Forst, a twenty-year-old woman studying to be a teacher in the 1930s. Deeply religious, she exists in a world where the belief in God appears to be fundamental to much of the instruction she receives. However, Malin is struggling with her faith and this develops into the debilitating crisis of the title. In what appears to the modern reader to be a crippling depression, Malin finds herself unable to undertake to the simplest of tasks, bursting into tears at the slightest provocation and finding the smallest act almost impossible. A paternally patronising doctor diagnoses anaemia; an old teacher fails to understand the depths of her despair; and her bullying father simply adds to the horror of her everyday existence. As Malin continues to search her soul for a solution, a chance glimpse of a particular female fellow student leads to an infatuation, a revelation and a chance of recovery.

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Dorrit Willumsen (b. 1940), author of the novel Bang,came to visit us here at Norvik Press for a chat with her translator, Marina Allemano, about their shared fascination in the (endlessly fascinating!) life of Herman Bang. Bang is welcome to join the party too: he will make a most excellent speaker in the after-dinner slot. What does it mean, this unease? Where does it lead? Driving one’s soul to relinquish everything it has, hindering it from searching for anything new. What is this great weariness towards everything she has found, what is this great longing for something that no one can find that drives us to fold our hands in our lap – and despair? Norvik Press are delighted to announce that two of our translators have been shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize 2021:After graduating from Åhlinska skolan, Boye did go to university in Uppsala -- not to study psychology, but at least also avoiding theology.) Amalie Skram (1846–1905) is not for the faint-hearted. Her oeuvre includes Betrayed, Fru Inés, and Lucie, as well as her correspondence: Skram had access to the leading figures of the time, from radical writers and critics to politicians, so there’s plenty to whet one’s appetite! Munken tar diskussionen med humanisten och teologen med medicinaren. Malin själv talar med läkaren och läraren om sina tvivel och känslan av meningslöshet inför Nya testamentet och budorden. ”Gudagrubbel” som någon kallade det. But then she falls for a fellow student, Siv. Instantly, everything becomes clear to her again, even though Siv and Malin hardly interact with each other and Malin's relationship with Siv seems to play more in her head, in the form of daydreams, than in real life.