Lilljecronas Heimat – Wikipedia

Liljecronas Heimat (Original title: Lilljecron hem , literally: Liljecronas Heim) is a novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. The novel was released in 1911 and is about a young girl who has to suffer from an evil stepmother and which, through her love, redeems a melancholy young man, namely the title hero.

The thirteen -year -old Eleonora, named Lill (Little Girl), her service at the rectory Lövdala in the Swedish province of Värmland. Pastor Erik Lyselius lives there with his seventeen -year -old daughter Maja Lisa. Her mother died from Maja Lisa’s birth. Pastor Lyselius had married again last summer, Anna Maria Raklitz, daughter of a German trumpeter.

Lilljänta soon becomes that the stepmother Maja Lisa hates and tyrannizes. Maja Lisa confesses that she even got to know evil in her own soul when she had abide with the stepmother. Out of concern for her father’s health, however, she cannot entrust him to how much she suffers from the stepmother.

One day Maja Lisa meets the blacksmith of the Henriksberg estate. She immediately feels pulled to him, but notes that he has something dark and poorly about. Shortly thereafter, Maja Lisa with Lilljänta is visiting an aunt. Here she meets the pastor Liljecrona, who tells her about his brother Sven Liljecrona: he is a estate manager of the Henriksberg estate, but his whole passion belongs to the violin game. When Sven Liljecrona once played so adorably that his fiance fell dead while dancing, he has become melancholy and has not stirred a violin since then. Shortly afterwards, Sven Liljecrona also arrives at Maja Lisa’s aunt: it is the same man who had once pretended to be a blacksmith of Henriksberg.

With the help of an anonymous letter, Maja Lisa’s stepmother threads a sneaky intrigue against Maja Lisa, who almost led to Maja Lisa violated her father. But Lilljänta can bring the truth to light at the last second. Maja Lisa and her father reconcile, the evil stepmother disappears and never returns.

At a meeting, Maja Lisa realizes that she loves Sven Liljecrona. But shortly afterwards her father dies. In the morning after his death, Maja Lisa hears a desperate and terrifying violin play in front of her window. Sven Liljecrona has struggled to play for her. But in the game, all its despair and sadness broke through again. He warns Maja Lisa: he is a melancholy person with whom it cannot be endured. But then Maja Lisa recognizes how she can help him: Liljecrona needs a home. What is your beloved Lövdala for you is the music for Liljecrona. She asks Liljecrona to play again. And now love breaks through Liljecrona’s violin play. Maja Lisa’s love healed Liljecrona.

Lilljecron hem tie in many things Gösta Berling , Selma Lagerlöf’s first novel, to: Lilljecron hem plays in the same landscape as Gösta Berling , many out Gösta Berling Well -known places and people reappear. This applies in particular to the title hero, Sven Liljecrona, who is already in Gösta Berling happened. In Gösta Berling there is even a chapter with the title Lilljecron hem . For this chapter, the novel treated here is the prehistory. In the novel Lilljecron hem Liljecrona’s engagement is treated while in Gösta Berling Liljecrona appears as a married family man.

In the novel, Selma Lagerlöf essentially describes real people and events: model for Sven Liljecrona was Selma Lagerlöfs Grandfather’s paternal side, Daniel Lagerlöf, regimental clerk, estate manager and passionate violin player. (He is not to be confused with lieutenant Erik Liljecrona The emperor of Portugaries , which Selma Lagerlöf’s father is reproduced.) Maja Lisa’s father wears some trains from Selma Lagerlöf’s own father, in Maja Lisa, Selma Lagerlöf portrays her grandmother her paternal sideways Lisa Maja Lagerlöf, born Wennerwik, the rectory Lövdala is an image of Mårbacka, the good of Selma Lagerlöf’s family, who used to be a rectory, and in the relationship between Maja Lisa and the younger, her faithful, Lilljänta can be found by Selma Lagerlöf’s relationship with her younger sister Gerda.

Differences in sound and topic Lilljecron hem Of course strong from Gösta Berling . The exuberant, pathetic tone has given way to a more sober language, and instead of romantic adventure and fantastic saying Lilljecron hem A factual and clear description of the life of the farmers in the Värmland. (The pastor Lyselius also has to drive agriculture, just like Selma Lagerlöfs.) Selma Lagerlöfs has always endeavored to describe the way of life on the good of her parents and in her home country and thereby preserve it for later generations . Lilljecron hem is part of this project.

First and foremost it goes in Lilljecron hem for happiness and security that a home conveys. Such a home had Selma Lagerlöf himself in his parents’ Mårbacka, and Maja Lisa, after she had almost lost her home through the evil stepmother, gives her beloved Liljecrona and heals him. The victory of love over the dark and evil: the central topic at Selma Lagerlöf par excellence and especially in Lilljecron hem .

In the first part of her autobiography, the one published in 1922 Mårbacka , Selma Lagerlöf tells the history of her grandparents on the father’s side again, albeit much shorter and now with the real names. It can be seen that they are in Lilljecron hem Quite a little changed (the most important difference is that Ms. Raklitz really has not disappeared, but still lived for a long time and reconciled with Maja Lisa) that Selma Lagerlöf has often led things in the novel.

• Vivi Edström, Selma Lagerlöf , Stockholm 1991
• Rejo Rüster and Lars Westmann, Selma at Mårbacka , Stockholm 1996