The nights do not darken. Bare and craggy mountaintops jut out of the livid light of the water. A strange cool wind blows to me out of this primeval landscape. it might be the world in the last days of the Flood.
#ChristianeRitter A Woman in the Polar Night (1938) 📚
(1/2)

Just finished Christiane Ritter’s ‘A Woman in the Polar Night’. It’s been a while since a book made me cry: ‘You must have gazed on the deadness of all things to grasp their livingness.’ It’s absolutely beautiful and profound.

#womaninthepolarnight #christianeritter #nonfiction

Yesterday’s ’read-for-pleasure’ book haul. I have just started Jan Kerouac’s ‘Baby Driver’ with an introduction by Amanda Fortini and I am totally hooked.

#mirandajuly #christianeritter #chloearidjis #jankerouac

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North The word gnål is Norwegian for “nagging,” and the mountain Gnålberget, in the South of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, is so named for the birds that nest high on its p…

« I’ve come to understand it to be one of those books that seems like it’s showing you one thing, only to feint at the end and reveal something else entirely. » lithub.com/a-kind-of-ar...

#christianeritter