The Faithful Wife
Undset, Sigrid: Den trofaste hustruIn The Faithful Wife, Sigrid Undset examines women’s relationship to professional life, to eroticism and childlessness. Nathalie is a modern woman of her time; she is liberated, has a good education and a leading position. She has been married to Sigurd for sixteen years, but they have no children. Nevertheless, their marriage has been happy and safe, Nathalie thinks. But it is not enough that she is faithful, when her husband is not.
The Faithful Wife is Sigrid Undset’s last contemporary novel, and it also bears witness to the age in which it was written – an interwar period marked by rising Nazism and discussions about the value of human life.
First published: 1936
Sigrid Undset: Biography and bibliography
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| Language | Foreign publisher |
|---|---|
| American English | Alfred A. Knopf, New York |
| Czech | Vysehrad |
| Danish | Jespersen og Pio, Copenhagen |
| Estonian | Eesti Ramat |
| French | Édition Gallimard, Paris |
| Polish | Institut Wydawniczy Pax, Warsaw |
