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Jenny

One evening in Rome, in the beginning of the last century, two people meet in the street: researcher Helge Gram and painter Jenny Winge. They embark on an affair, and when they meet again in Kristiania, Helge introduces Jenny to his family. Helge’s parents are living in a sinister marriage, something Helge is clearly marked by. This becomes a heavy burden to Jenny’s and Helge’s relationship, and after a while, they split up. Jenny, however discovers that she has much in common with Helge’s father; something which in turn leads him to leave his wife. This new relationship is soon to have tragic consequences for Jenny’s life

"Jenny", the novel that marked Undset’s breakthrough as a modern writer, is an intelligent novel about one woman’s dream of love and her tragic fight to make that dream come true. Undset reveals a horrible truth that has been hard for the modern individual to accept; that there is no necessary connection between freedom and happiness.

First published: 1911

Sigrid Undset: Biography and bibliography

Translations: Albanian (Apollonia, Tirana), American English ( published by ), Bulgarian ("Jeni"publihsed by Narodna Kulutra, Sofia), Czech (Lidové nakladatelstoí), Danish ("Jenny" published by Jespersen og Pio, Copenhagen), Estonian, Finnish, French, German (Universitas Verlag), Swedish ("Jenny" published by Norstedts, Stockholm)

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