A Woman in the Polar Night

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Für mich bleiben die Emotionen einfach zu fern und die literarische Tiefe mit dem Zauber der Natur kommen in diesen Berichten für mich persönlich nicht in einen Einklang, der mich berührt. I was also amazed by how well she was able to hear and see in the clear air of the Arctic; she could hear the hunters talking even though they were miles away on one of their trips. Velmi zaujímavý je aj doslov prekladatelky Violy Somogyi, v ktorom sa podrobnejšie píše o živote jej aj jej manžela - a že sú to zaujímavé osudy. We know being out in the polar night does makes her feel frightened and alone, but we don't get much sense of Ritter's character.

But the Arctic is far from peaceful: normal temperatures are 25 degrees below, hunting foxes, seals, and even polar bears are vital for survival, and in wintertime the sun doesn’t rise for four months. In a tiny hut shared with her husband and a young trapper they endure the cold, hunger and isolation with great love of their little world. She also doesn't really comment on how she feels about the fur hunting that is central to their reason from remaining in Svalbard. The writing is part memoir and a travelogue of sorts that does not keep its arc or sights on geographical indicators.She begins to fall in love with the bleak island, even throughout the long, dark night that lasts months.

Your opening made me laugh – that it’s “surely the challenge I’ve been able to fulfil most numerously from the TBR, apart from 20 Books of Summer, ever! We get psychological insight, sometimes raw, sometimes incredibly moving, as well as lots of delicious and not-so-delicious details of life in such an inhospitable place. That bright Blyton style descends into a dark cerebal tone; the mental toughness necessary for survival is evident.One of the first things her husband does when she gets there is to leave her alone for 12 days while he goes hunting with his male friend who also lives with them. It took a while for me to get in to this book but as soon as the woman arrived in the polar night I found it hard to put down and the last couple of chapters left a lump in my throat.

She agrees, leaving her small daughter with family in Germany and ignoring pleas about this being a "hairbrain" scheme. The author's husband had been living for a few years on the island, hunting and fishing, and had been encouraging her to come spend a year with him. It boggles my mind that she and her companions went a full eight months without any kind of fresh meat. Unter anderem – wer weiß es, dass der Mensch in der totalen Einsamkeit, wo die Anregungen und der Widerhall durch den Mitmenschen fehlt, schließlich an das Ende des eigenen Ichs gerät? The concept - I was actually really intrigued to read this book at first as it thought it would be fascinating to learn about life in the Arctic (I should have just stuck with the David Attenborough documentaries!She mentions leaving all the servants and her house in Austria, but there is one mention of their daughter, apparently a teenager at the time of the journey. Ein Buch mit faszinierenden literarischen Bildern, allerdings muss ich wieder einmal feststellen, dass solche Reise-/Abenteuerberichte einfach nicht meins sind . Though I recognize the distinction between trophy hunting and this sort, I’d’ve been tempted to skim those bits for sure. Besonders schön und persönlich fand ich, dass ihrem Buch acht ihrer Aquarelle und 25 ihrer Federzeichnungen hinzugefügt wurden, die das Buch abrunden und sehr bereichert haben- immerhin war Ritter Künstlerin.