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Novel 11, Book 18

Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228290
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Novel 11, Book 18 written by Dag Solstad and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knut Hamsun

Author : Hanna Astrup Larsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Knut Hamsun written by Hanna Astrup Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Their Own Words

Author : Solveig Zempel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452903107
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book In Their Own Words written by Solveig Zempel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Happy Times in Norway

Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816684693
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Happy Times in Norway written by Sigrid Undset and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Times in Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undset’s own blissful home life before her nation fell to the Nazi occupation. Captured here is the excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, and summer in the idyllic mountains, as well as the chaotic adventure of raising two energetic boys. With vivid detail and illuminating descriptions of the landscape, Happy Times in Norway is infused with the wish that those cherished days could come again.

Self-Control

Author : Stig Saeterbakken
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564788210
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Self-Control written by Stig Saeterbakken and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in Stig Saeterbakken's loosely connected "S Trilogy" Self-Control moves from the dark portrait of codependent marriage featured in the acclaimed Siamese to a world of solitary loneliness and repression. A middle-aged man, Andreas Feldt, feeling that he is unable to communicate with his adult daughter over the course of a friendly lunch, announces on an inexplicable whim that he is going to get a divorce. Though his daughter is initially shocked, she quickly assimilates this information and all returns to normal. Faced with this virtual invisibility—for no matter what actions he takes, the world seems to take no notice—Andreas is cut adrift from the certainties of his life and forced to navigate through a society where it seems virtually everyone is only one loss of self-control away from an explosion of dissatisfaction and rage.

Twentieth-century Norwegian Writers

Author : Tanya Thresher
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Norwegian Writers written by Tanya Thresher and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographies and criticism of some of the most influential Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, producing a representative cross section of the Norwegian literary environment with writers of various decades, movements, and genres - preference has been given to authors whose works have been translated into English.

Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway

Author : Dean Krouk
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295742305
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway written by Dean Krouk and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the occupation of Norway in World War II, and those of the anti-fascist novelist and critic Sigurd Hoel, Dean Krouk reveals key aspects of the modernist literary imagination in Norway. In their writings, Hamsun, Sveen, and Jacobsen expressed their discontent with twentieth-century European modernity, which they perceived as overly rationalized or nihilistic. Krouk explains how fascism offered these writers a seductive utopian vision that intersected with the countercultural and avant-garde aspects of their literary works, while Hoel�s critical analysis of Nazism extended to a questioning of all patriarchal forms of authority. Krouk�s readings of their works serve as a timely reminder to us all of the dangers of fascism.

Everything Like Before

Author : Kjell Askildsen
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1939810957
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Everything Like Before written by Kjell Askildsen and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing. A man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway café -- Kjell Askildsen's characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen's characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.

Lillelord

Author : Johan Borgen
Publisher : New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lillelord written by Johan Borgen and published by New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1982 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilfred Sagen, a young boy growing up in pre-World War I Norway, cleverly hides his schizophrenic tendencies from his parents.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 354

Author : Lanae H. Isaacson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414462271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 354 by : Lanae H. Isaacson

Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 354 written by Lanae H. Isaacson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys Norwegian literature from the humanism of the vibrant, worldly Hanseatic city Bergen in the 16th century to the symbolism, expressionism & fin-de-siecle poetry and prose associated with Europe. Norway came into its own as a literary powerhouse in the 19th century, a period of literary ferment when most of the authors covered in the volume lived.

Remedies and Rituals

Author : Kathleen Stokker
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517504
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Remedies and Rituals written by Kathleen Stokker and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spells are conjured, herbs collected, and potions concocted in this fascinating history of the practices and beliefs of Norway's folk healers at home and in the New Land.

Hunger

Author : Knut Hamsun
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781486152063
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Hunger written by Knut Hamsun and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger by Knut Hamsun - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: From there his parents moved when he was only four to settle in the far northern district of Lofoden--that land of extremes, where the year, and not the day, is evenly divided between darkness and light; where winter is a long dreamless sleep, and summer a passionate dream without sleep; where land and sea meet and intermingle so gigantically that man is all but crushed between the two--or else raised to titanic measures by the spectacle of their struggle. ...But when Kareno, the irreconcilable rebel of At the Gates of the Kingdom, the heaven-storming truth-seeker of The Game of Life, and the acclaimed radical leader in the first acts of Sunset Glow, surrenders at last to the powers that be in order to gain a safe and sheltered harbor for his declining years, then another man of 29 stands ready to denounce him and to take up the rebel cry of youth to which he has become a traitor. Hamsuns ironical humor and whimsical manner of expression do more than the plot itself to knit the plays into an organic unit, and several of the characters are delightfully drawn, particularly the two women who play the greatest part in Karenos life: his wife Eline, and Teresita, who is one more of his many feminine embodiments of the passionate and changeable Northland nature. ...From 1897 to 1912 Hamsun produced a series of volumes that simply marked a further development of the tendencies shown in his first novels: Siesta, short stories, 1897; Victoria a novel with a charming love story that embodies the tenderest note in his production, 1898; In Wonderland, travelling sketches from the Caucasus, 1903; Brushwood, short stories, 1903; The Wild Choir, a collection of poems, 1904; Dreamers, a novel, 1904; Struggling Life, short stories and travelling sketches, 1905; Beneath the Autumn Star a novel, 1906; Benoni, and Rosa, two novels forming to some extent sequels to Pan, 1908; A Wanderer Plays with Muted Strings, a novel, 1909; and The Last Joy, a shapeless work, half novel and half mere uncoordinated reflections, 1912. ...I turned to a shop window and stopped in order to give him an opportunity of getting ahead, but when, after a lapse of some minutes, I again walked on there was the man still in front of me--he too had stood stock still, --without stopping to reflect I made three or four furious onward strides, caught him up, and slapped him on the shoulder.

Norwegian Writers, 1500 to 1900

Author : Lanae H. Isaacson
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 : 9780787681722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Norwegian Writers, 1500 to 1900 written by Lanae H. Isaacson and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys Norwegian literature from the humanism of the vibrant, worldly Hanseatic city Bergen in the 16th century to the symbolism, expressionism & fin-de-siecle poetry and prose associated with Europe. Norway came into its own as a literary powerhouse in the 19th century, a period of literary ferment when most of the authors covered in the volume lived.

Selected Stories

Author : Kjell Askildsen
Publisher : Norwegian Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781628970289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Selected Stories written by Kjell Askildsen and published by Norwegian Literature. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly nothing; besieged by urban desert or actual wilderness, by alcohol, cigarettes, and ghosts; by mothers, fathers, and lovers who have disappeared... Written in a seemingly unadorned style, with flashes of pitch-black humor, Askildsen's devastating stories convey in few words a portrait of life and thought as they are actually experienced, balanced between despair and hope, memories and expectations. He is recognized as one of the greatest Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, and among the greatest short-story authors of all time.

Replacement

Author : Tor Ulven
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564787486
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Replacement written by Tor Ulven and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, directing the book in turn; each replacing its predecessor and forming another link in a chain leading nowhere. These people reminisce, reflect, observe, and talk to themselves; each stuck in their respective traps, each dreaming of escape. A masterpiece of compression and confession, Replacement dramatizes the tension between the concrete realities we think we cannot alter, and our interior lives, where we feel anything might still be possible.

Contemporary World Fiction

Author : Juris Dilevko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598849093
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

Norway

Author : Sakina Kagda
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502618494
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Norway written by Sakina Kagda and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norway is a country with a rich history, diverse culture, and unique customs. Today, it is one of the most successful countries in the world, and its citizens are among the happiest on Earth. This book explores Norways evolution from ancient times to the Vikings and finally to the present day, examining the way Norway operates as a country, its government, and the people who make the country what it is today. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World® series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.