Dag Solstad

It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room.

Bjorn Hansen acaba de cumplir cincuenta años y espera a alguien en la estación de ferrocarril de Kongsberg, adonde llegó tras seguir a una mujer, Turid Lammers, por la que abandonó, en Oslo, a la madre de su hijo de dos años. Tenía una prometedora carrera en el ministerio y colaboró junto a Turid en la asociación de teatro local. Hace 4 años que se separó de Turid y desde hace más de diez no encuentra sentido alguno a su vida. DEL PRESTIGIOSO AUTOR SUECO DAG SOLSTAD QUE HA RECIBIDO EL PREMIO DE LA CRÍTICA LITERARIA DE NORUEGA EN TRES OCASIONES.

Inédito no Brasil, Dag Solstad é um dos autores mais instigantes da Noruega. Com seu estilo original e inimitável, ele é considerado um provocador. Desde a publicação de seu primeiro livro, Spiraler,

La historia trata sobre una revelación. Ekias Rukla, profesor de secundaria, lleva veinticinco años repitiendo las mismas verdades inalterables sobre la obra de Ibsen. Hasta que un día, en medio de una de sus clases, cree entender le verdadero significado de El pato salvaje.

The new novel in English from one of Norways most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstads classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style.A kind of surrealistic writer Serious literature Haruki MurakamiMad, sad and funny Thrilling Geoff DyerSinger, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in with her and her young daughter. After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singers lifeAn utterly hypnotic writer James WoodSolstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence Sunday Times Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize

Es Nochebuena y el profesor Pål Andersen, de cincuenta y cinco años, está solo, tomando café y coñac en su sala de estar. Perdido en sus pensamientos, mira por la ventana y ve a un hombre estrangular

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMYS NORDIC PRIZE 2017Hes a kind of surrealistic writer... I think thats serious literature Haruki MurakamiAn utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer James WoodWithout question Norways bravest, most intelligent novelist Per PettersonDag Solstad serves up another helping of his wan and wise almost-comedy Geoff DyerHe doesnt write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, thats my idea...the drama exists in his voice Lydia DavisBjrn 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 dabble in amateur dramatics. But as time passes, this relationship begins to wilt and die as well. After four years of living comfortably alone, Bjrn starts entertaining a dangerous course of action that will change his life beyond recognition. This urge to gamble with his comfortable existence becomes irresistible, taking Bjrn to Vilnius, Lithuania, with Dr Schitz his fellow conspirator, where he cannot tell whether hes tangled up in a game or an absurd new reality.

The new novel in English from one of Norways most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstads classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style.A kind of surrealistic writer Serious literature Haruki MurakamiMad, sad and funny Thrilling Geoff DyerSinger, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in with her and her young daughter. After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singers lifeAn utterly hypnotic writer James WoodSolstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence Sunday Times Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize

It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pl 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. Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. The days pass, and he becomes paralysed by indecision. Desperate for respite, the professor sets off to a local sushi bar, only to find himself face to face with the murderer.Professor Andersens Night is an unsettling yet highly entertaining novel of apathy, rebellion and morality. In flinty prose, Solstad presents an uncomfortable question: would we, like his cerebral protagonist, do nothing?

À trente-quatre ans, Singer, auteur sans succès ni inspiration, obtient son diplôme de bibliothécaire. Il décide de quitter Oslo pour prendre un nouveau départ dans une ville de province où personne

Bjørn Hansen vient d’avoir cinquante ans et est affligé de constater que c’est le hasard qui a conduit sa vie. Dix-huit ans plus tôt, il a délaissé sa femme et son fils de deux ans pour sa maîtresse,

Solstad doesnt write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, thats my ideathe drama exists in his voice Lydia DavisArmand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but hes 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. Armands 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 Solstads 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

Nothing in Elias measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the indescribably beautiful Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He makes sure he has his headache pills and leaves for work as he has done every morning for the past twenty-five years.He is only too familiar with his pupils hostile attitude both to his lectures and to himself, but today he feels their impatience, their oafishness, more painfully than ever before and, after their ritually dismissive and bored response to his passionate lecture on Ibsens The Wild Duck, he reaches a point of crisis.Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

Es Nochebuena y el profesor Pål Andersen, de cincuenta y cinco años, está solo, tomando café y coñac en su sala de estar. Perdido en sus pensamientos, mira por la ventana y ve a un hombre estrangular