Uncatagorisable

"Positioning Undset has been a difficult task for researchers, because her Catholicism and realism fall outside the liberal-national, feminist and modernist literary canon that accounts for most of Norwegian literature."*

And that's what I love about her!

*Liv Bliksrud, “Sigrid Undset: Prize for Literature, 1928”, in Olav Njølstad (ed.), Norske nobelprisvinnere: Fra Bjørnson til Kydland (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2005), p. 187.