Alberta and Freedom
By Cora Sandel
In Alberta and Freedom (1931) Alberta escapes from her life in Norway to seek out Paris, a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is absinthe and endless talk of…
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In Alberta and Freedom (1931) Alberta escapes from her life in Norway to seek out Paris, a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is absinthe and endless talk of Cubism.
But Paris is not all she imagined. Although she begins to write pieces for newspapers, Alberta's self-esteem is low, and her inexperience makes her prey to the casual approaches of predatory men. Relationships, when they happen, are neither easy nor happy. Feeling her talent beginning to suffer and her freedom stagnating, Alberta faces a struggle to survive.
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Publication year2023
Pages304
CategoryClassics
Praise
[This] is a masterpiece... As a writer, Miss Sandel is Maugham's superior. She has not his gift of irony, but her emotional depth is far greater... Miss Sandel is a stylist, a writer of marvelous delicacy...To read it is, in part, to relive the painful experience of growing human.
Saturday Review, USAShe has a place to herself among the finest contemporary writing.
Guardian, UKAhead of her time . . . Like Virginia Woolf, though much tougher . . . A classic.
Times Literary Supplement, UKShe has a sure poise and distance that has deserted today's novelist.
Guardian, UKExcellently translated . . . the fascination lies in the picture, convincing, lively beautifully drawn, of the artists's Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Glasgow Herald, UK
