Dag Solstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Agnes Scott Langeland. Vintage (UK) (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (154p) ISBN 978-0-0995-7842-0
Alone on Christmas Eve, 55 year-old literature professor Andersen stares at the Christmas tree in his living room, "at peace," indulging in Christmas rituals which "meant nothing to him." But standing by his window in reflective silence, he...
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Dag Solstad, Author, Sverre Lyngstad, Translator , trans. from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. Graywolf $12 (150p) ISBN 978-1-55597-446-6
An Oslo academic who came of age in the way-out '60s shrinks back from the glaring modern age in Norwegian novelist and playwright Solstad's remarkably nuanced novel, his first to be translated into English. Elias Rukla, described in this...
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Dag Solstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2596-0
Solstad’s unusual, entertaining novel of restrained humor follows its protagonist, T Singer, over a lifetime of nonengagement. Singer is something of a Bartleby whose neuroses compel him to retreat from life, abandon his hilarious attempts to write...
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Dag Solstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Steven T. Murray. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2628-8
This unique, fascinating novel is composed of footnotes to a larger work that doesn’t exist. Solstad is present as both author and minor character, delving into short essays about his writing process as he passes age 60. His original idea “is...
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Dag Solstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2826-8
A bourgeois man scavenges for meaning in the sly and emotionally rich latest from Solstad (Professor Andersen’s Night). Soft-spoken civil servant Bjørn Hansen left his wife and young son, Peter, in Oslo 18 years earlier and moved to a small town....
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