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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petersen

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  • 27-01-2011 11:44pm
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    deaglan1
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭


    Hi all, if anyone has read this, I would be very grateful for a response. I am looking for opinions about two specific moments in this book and two more general queries.

    1) The basis for the destruction of the bird's nest by Jon - is this act an outpouring of frustration over what has happened to his brother - is this Jon's way of feebly attempting to gain a sense of control over the cruelty of nature/fate?

    2) The potential assault of the man in the street in Karlstad by Trond - is this also an outpouring of frustration - perhaps a sense of frustration that has built up in Trond in not being able to meet his father and confront him with his raw sense of betrayal by him. Is the man in the street, a substitute for his father?

    3) General query one - Trond seems to have intentionally cut himself away from his remaining family - his daughters, and seems to have been generally aloof to them as they grew up. Is this because he does not wish them to experience the intense loss of his own relationship with his father, Trond's aloofness being a sort of inverted protection, or is he just not bothered because he has not got a son whom he could have brought to these forest retreats and treated well and not abandoned?

    3) General query two - is the return by Trond to a rural "idyll" 52 years after his time spent in a similar "idyll" with his father an attempt to go back and revisit and make sense of these losses and betrayals or is it a desire to revisit and relive the happiness he had felt in such surroundings prior to the death of Odd, the loss of Jon's friendship, and his paternal abandonment?


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