«Jakt og skogsmotivet i Trygve Gulbranssens "Og bakom synger skogene"-trilogi (1933-1935)

Abstract

The article investigates the motifs of hunting and wilderness in the Norwegian novelist Trygve Gulbranssens Bjørndal Trilogy – Og bakom synger skogene (1933), published in English as Beyond Sing the Woods; Det blåser fra Dauingfjell (1934) and Ingen vei går utenom (1935), collectively translated under the English title The Wind from the Mountains. The books have been translated into over 30 languages and sold more than 12 million copies. There are however hardly any literary studies of the novels. The article argues that the critique of modernity in the Bjørndal Trilogy might not only be seen as regressive nationalism, but as dealing with human interactions with nature in a way that has ecocritical potentials.