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Author : Tanya Thresher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century Norwegian Writers written by Tanya Thresher and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tanya Thresher
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Sigrid Undset
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816684693
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
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.
Author : Kjell Askildsen
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1939810957
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)
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.
Author : Hanna Astrup Larsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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:
Author : Johan Borgen
Publisher : New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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.
Author : Solveig Zempel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452903107
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
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.
Author : Dean Krouk
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295742305
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
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 2017-09-19 with total page 185 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.
Author : Knut Hamsun
Publisher : LA CASE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Growth of the Soil written by Knut Hamsun and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1923 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power—and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Author : Lanae H. Isaacson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414462271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (622 download)
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.
Author : Tor Ulven
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564787486
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
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.
Author : Lanae H. Isaacson
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 : 9780787681722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
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.
Author : Knut Hamsun
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Hunger written by Knut Hamsun and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hunger" has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven literature. "Hunger" portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner. The novel is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania (now Oslo), "Hunger" recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis.
Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228290
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
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.
Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720617006
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Boat in the Evening written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life—of landscape and people.
Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241384885
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Birds written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The best Norwegian novel ever' Karl Ove Knausgaard Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their peaceful lakeside cottage since they were young, gets so frustrated. But he knows that the woodcock which starts to fly over their house every day is a sign something is about to change. And when Hege falls in love, disrupting their familiar existence and unbalancing his thoughts, he decides he must face his fate. Translated by Torbjørn Støverud and Michael Barnes 'A masterpiece' Literary Review 'Mattis, absurd and boastful, but also sweet, pathetic and even funny, is shown with great insight' Sunday Times
Author : Dag Solstad
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226298
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Armand V written by Dag Solstad and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions proudly introduces two novels in English by the Norwegian master, who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson) 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 for Western intervention. He hides behind knowing, ironic statements, which no one grasps and which change nothing. Armand’s son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, and this leads to catastrophic, heartbreaking consequences. Told exclusively in footnotes to an unwritten book, 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.
