Monday, March 23, 2009

Ronia, The Robber's Daughter

I wonder if anyone else was surprised that "Ronia" was written as recent as 1981. There is such an early twentieth century feel to the writing style, very modernist, and I wonder if Lindgren did the repetition and the restrained writing purposely. I think the style is the most distinct part of the story (at least to me), and when I noticed when it was written it definitely seemed archaic for a writer from Generation X, though it seemed prudent for the topic she was writing about, a Romeo and Juliet story among thieves, to sound a little old-fashioned to make the story fit.

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