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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
“What it did with Undset in a sense brought her back to pre-Protestant Scandinavian culture, which I think she was able to be both medieval and modern.”
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…How did Catholicism shape the work of Sigrid Undset? Once again, I think Scandinavian Catholic is in the minority. What it did with Undset in a sense brought her back to pre-Protestant Scandinavian culture, which I think she was able to be both medieval and modern. I think she was able to bring more of the Scandinavian character together in her novels that way. The interesting one that you mentioned though, is Houellebecq. All of his novels to essentially take place in secular hell of modern Europe, which has eradicated its roots. You see him in the recent work trying to get out of it, and the only way he can is in a sense by a leap of faith. Anyway, it’s Islam that he admires for standing up to the system and saying no.…
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