![]() ![]() ![]() The trajectory of the narrative, they argue, discards all things physical in favor of the spiritual. Nearly all critics who discuss Kristin Lavransdatter pose a dichotomous reading of the text, in which the protagonist Kristin overcomes her flesh and her earthly desires in order to move toward eternity and God. The paper offers Sigrid Undset’s 1920, Nobel Prize wining, Catholic trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter, as a significant (and unjustly overlooked) text of the period, ripe for reevaluation. The modern Catholic novel, in particular, with its focus on the eternal significance of humanity, deserves this attention. This paper joins those voices by proposing, along with the reexamination of the sacred in nonreligious writers like Woolf and Joyce, a reexamination of specifically religious work and on its own terms. Though literary modernism has been historically characterized as atheistic and anti-traditional, new critical voices are emerging that argue for the presence of the sacred in modernist texts. ![]()
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