Kristian Elster (born 1881)

Kristian Elster the Younger ( born March 17, 1881 in Trondheim, † November 6, 1947 in Oslo) was a Norwegian writer, literary critic and literary historian.

Life

Elster was the son of the writer Kristian Mandrup Elster, who died a few weeks after his birth. His mother, Sanna Fasting, moved with her three sons first in her hometown Forde and later to Kristiania (Oslo ).

After graduating from high school, which he completed in 1900, Elster studied law and then worked from 1906 as a judicial officer, first in Mandal and then in the Ministry of Agriculture.

After he had in 1905 published a story, in 1907 his first book, a collection of short stories. However, he had his breakthrough in the 1910s with novels, namely Laere with the 1911-1913 published autobiographical trilogy I, Landeveien and Mester, as well as with the 1917 published Min bror Harris.

From 1911 Elster also worked as literary critic for the newspaper Intelligenssedler, initially parallel to its official activities. In 1918 he retired from the civil service in order to devote himself exclusively to literature. From 1919 he also wrote reviews for the newspapers Aftenposten and nations.

In 1922, he began working at a presentation of the Norwegian literary history, which should compete with the work of Francis Bull and Johan Fredrik Paasche. Elster's work was published in 1923 and 1924 norsk litteraturhistorie as Illustreret and was reissued in 1934 and 1935 ..

Elster published in addition to numerous novels and short stories, plays, children's books and a collection of poems Fjeldets start In his work he dealt - as Nini Roll Anker - with the development of the official level in an era marked by political changes time. He treated in his novels also often the contrast between the dreamy and aestheticism in active social interaction.

Works

  • Thorbjørn Hille (1908 )
  • Byen og havet (1909 )
  • De un hjerter (1910 )
  • I Laere (1911 )
  • Landeveien (1912 )
  • Mester (1913 )
  • ILDs (1915 )
  • Min bror Harris ( 1917)
  • Av skyggernes slegt (1919; German The magistrate house by the fjord, 1929)
  • Guldet og de ​​grønne skoger ( 1921)
  • The skjønne ungdom (1923 )
  • The hellige Andreas (1925 )
  • Bonde Veirskjæg (1930; German Jon Maar and the jurists, 1938)
  • Since jeg kom til anseelse (1931 )
  • Fugl Fønix (1932 )
  • Arken (1935 )
  • Helg (1937 )
  • The røde sparebøsse (1942 )
  • Fra Paradisets have (1945 )
  • Fortællinger (1907)
  • En fin history (1938 )
  • The ensomme ø (1921; German Three boys on an island, 1932)
  • Tirdalsbrøderne (1933 )
  • Utes hjem (1911 )
  • Min høire hånd (1919)
  • Chefen (1926 )
  • Fjeldets start (1919)
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