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Gösta Berling’s Saga

As in later novels, the narrative voice in Gösta Berling’s Saga is more prominent than those of the characters. The narrator is a storyteller; the raconteur never fades unobtrusively into the background. A reader knows that he or she is but a listener: The teller will make the story and say what it signifies. Characters do not, as in more realistic fiction, resemble living persons with lives of their own; rather, they are like marionettes, pulled up to their feet to dance only when the storyteller commands. One would never speculate about what a Lagerlöf character might be thinking when that character is not in the immediate scene. Characters, because they are so fully bound to the scenes in which they appear, simply do not exist when they are not “onstage.” In Lagerlöf’s novels, an air of reality surrounds the story but not the individual characters in it. In turn, the reader must listen, accept as final what information the narrator provides, and, above all, agree to be entertained.

Takk for det, Gretemor. "Never fades unobtrusively into the background" er en god beskrivelse. Men det var dette med "agree to be entertained", da - når ingen ting overlates til fantasien!

Ja, ikke sant. Jeg tror hun hadde en fantastisk frodig fantasi, men mye av underholdningen i bøkene, er jo at vi som lesere skal bruke vår fantasi.