Dag Solstad

Mahcubiyet ve Haysiyet

A tale inspired by Ibsen's The Wild Duck finds teacher Elias Rukla so engrossed with his passion for Ibsen that he barely notices the hostility of his high-school students, an animosity that shifts on a pivotal day during which a broken umbrella provokes an unpredictable rage. Original.

Shyness and Dignity

A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.

Novel 11, Book 18

Handlingen i Dag Solstads nye roman starter idet hovedpersonen som 34-årig nyutdannet bibliotekar, reiser med toget til Notodden for å begynne et nytt og anonymt liv som ansatt ved biblioteket der. Dette skjer på begynnelsen av80-tallet, omtrent samtidig med at Hydro nedlegger sin industri-virksomhet på Notodden, og derfra føres handlingen frem til i dag. I katalogteksten fraOktober forlag heter det bla.: "Fortelleren i "T. Singer" sier selv at romanen som helhet ikke er en lystig bok; i partier er den imidlertid pregetav et dikterisk overskudd som gjør humoren fremtredende. Samtidig bidrar fortelleren her til å gjøre romanen mer eksplisitt eksistensiell enn Solstads foregående." Dette er Solstads fjortende roman på 30 år. Forhåndsomtale. 1999.

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T. Singer

Profesör Andersen'in Gecesi

Bjørn Hansen has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that pure chance has ruled his life. Novel 11, Book 18 is an uncompromising and concentrated existential novel which earned Dag Solstad his second Norwegian Critics’ Prize.

Novel 11

T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway. There he plans to begin a deliberately anonymous life as a librarian. But Singer unexpectedly falls in love with the ceramicist Merete Saethre, who has a young daughter from a previous relationship. After a few years together, the couple is on the verge of separating, when a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer's life.

On Birinci Roman On Sekizinci Kitap

Lise Ögretmeni Pedersenin Ülkemize Musallat Olan Büyük Siyasi Uyanisa Dair Anlatisi

Denne virtuose roman, som består af forfatterens tørre, forklarende fodnoter til en roman, der aldrig er blevet skrevet, handler om Armand V. og hans liv. I midten af 1960erne studerer han filologi ved universitetet i Oslo. Han er radikal og EU-modstander og ender som en ikke helt loyal diplomat og ambassadør

fotnoter til en uutgravd roman

Armand V.

In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Failing to report the murder, he becomes paralyzed by indecision. Professor Andersen's Night is an unsettling yet highly entertaining novel, written in Dag Solstad's signature concise, dark, and witty prose. "He's a kind of surrealistic writer of very strange novels," Huraki Murakami wrote, "I think he is serious literature."

Professor Andersen's Night

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Endelig! Lykken.

En middelaldrende lektor ved Fagerborg videregående i Oslo gjennomgår Ibsens "Vildanden" for en ikke altfor interessert gymnasklasse. På vei ut blir han stående i skolegården uten å få opp paraplyen sin. Deretter utløses romanens tilbakeblikk på Elias Ruklas liv, som også er en beskrivelse av trekk ved samfunnsutviklingen de siste ti årene

Genanse og verdighet

Elias Rukla er en lett alkoholisert middelaldrende lektor. På vei ut blir han stående i skolegården uten å få opp paraplyen sin, og overmannet av et voldsomt raseri skjeller han ut elevene som står i nærheten. Rukla opplever dette som et ugjenkallelig fall, og hendelsen utløser romanens tilbakeblikk

Pudor y dignidad

Gymnaslærer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelsen som har hjemsøkt vårt land

Roman 1987

A novel depicting the development of a writer who becomes politically involved during the 1960s.

Roman

Arild Asnes, 1970

‘Solstad doesn’t write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that’s my idea...the drama exists in his voice’ Lydia Davis Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he’s caught between his public duty to support foreign wars in the Middle East and his private disdain of Western intervention. He hides behind his knowing ironic statements about the war, which no one grasps and which change nothing in the real world. Armand’s son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, which leads to catastrophic, heartbreaking consequences. Told exclusively in footnotes to an unwritten novel, this is Solstad's radically unconventional novel about how we experience the passing of time: how it fragments, drifts, quickens, and how single moments can define a life. Winner of the Brage Prize

Dag Solstad

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