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1. • • The Ice Palace is an elegant poetic fable that expresses through its unique language an instinctive, rather than an intellectual, human connection with questions of isolation and schism. Its modernist preoccupations are profoundly disquieting, and yet it comforts the reader because, paradoxically, its message connects us.
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   • And if you’re the type of reader who wants everything neatly tied up at the end, The Ice Palace may prove a frustrating read. However, as a story about grief, loss and loneliness, The Ice Palace is a haunting tale about the frozen worlds of our own making.

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   Is the Ice Palace written in prose?

   • The Ice Palace is written in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature. 176 pages, Paperback First published January 1, 1963 Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose.

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   Who wrote the Ice Palace?

   • First published in 1963 and translated into English in 1966, The Ice Palace was written by Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970), a poet and novelist widely regarded as one of Norway’s greatest writers of the 20th century. (According to the author biography in my edition, he wrote more than 25 novels and was nominated for the Nobel Prize 30 times!)

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   Is the Ice Palace a fable?

   • The Ice Palace is an elegant poetic fable that expresses through its unique language an instinctive, rather than an intellectual, human connection with questions of isolation and schism. Its modernist preoccupations are profoundly disquieting, and yet it comforts the reader because, paradoxically, its message connects us.

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   What is the Ice Palace?

   • She heads off on a day-long excursion to explore the ice palace, a frozen waterfall, which she has heard the children at school discuss. When she finally gets there after a trek across a frozen lake, she looks into a deep ravine and sees an “enchanted world of small pinnacles, gables, frosted domes, soft curves and confused tracery”.

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   How does the Ice Palace end?

   • The book ends with a small party of school children, including Siss, visiting the ice palace at the tail end of winter just as the ice is beginning to crack. When it collapses and falls away it takes all its secrets with it.

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   Nov 23, 2013 · The Ice Palace depicts a quite unusual psychological climate. Shocked by disappearance of her friend Siss experiences a deep psychological trauma… The ice construction rises above them, enigmatic, powerful, its pinnacles disappearing into the darkness and the winter cloud drift.

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   Apr 10, 2019 · And if you’re the type of reader who wants everything neatly tied up at the end, The Ice Palace may prove a frustrating read. However, as a story about grief, loss and loneliness, The Ice Palace is a haunting tale about the frozen worlds of our own making. This is my 14th book for #TBR40.

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   The Ice Palace is haunting and deeply disturbing -- though in as much of a good way as 'disturbing' can be. Parts of the novel are difficult to read, as Vesaas leads his young character down a road of no return, but it is a remarkably powerful evocation of the human condition.

   • Author: Tarjei Vesaas
   • Title: The Ice Palace

   • Genre: Novel
   • Written: 1963 (Eng. 1966)

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   Dec 4, 2023 · The Ice Palace is a book that you would want to read in a cozy winter with your warm blanked wrapped around you, with a cup of hot coffee in a dim light-setting room, when it’s snowing outside. A...

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   Feb 23, 2018 · Book details. The Ice Palace (1963) by Tarjei Vesaas, tr. Elizabeth Rokkan (1993); original pub. Peter Owen, this edition Penguin Modern Classics; 140 pages; paperback (review copy).

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   Nov 9, 2007 · The Ice Palace really deserves more widespread attention. It’s a subtle gem, extremely unassuming, and, while it will no doubt mean different things to different people, they will all agree that it means something to them.

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    The Ice Palace (Nynorsk: Is-slottet) is a novel by the Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas, first published in 1963. An English translation was published by Peter Owen Publishers, London. It and was scheduled for reissue with them in Christmas of 2017 was part of their Cased Classics series.