Chapters in Norwegian Literature
Author : Ingebrigt Christopher Grøndahl
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, Norwegian
ISBN :
Author : Ingebrigt Christopher Grøndahl
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, Norwegian
ISBN :
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307762718
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Now with a new introduction by the author. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
Author : Tim Mason
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643750461
“Intellectually stimulating and viscerally exciting, The Darwin Affair is breathtaking from start to stop.” —The Wall Street Journal Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakable crimes. London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later—and only a block away—Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin’s target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes? Soon, Field’s investigation exposes a shocking conspiracy in which the publication of Charles Darwin’s controversial On the Origin of Species sets off a string of murders, arson, kidnapping, and the pursuit of a madman named the Chorister. As the investigation takes Field from the dangerous alleyways of London to the hallowed halls of Oxford, the list of possible conspirators grows, and the body count escalates. And as he edges closer to the Chorister, he uncovers dark secrets that were meant to remain forever hidden. Tim Mason has created a rousing page-turner that both Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would relish and envy.
Author : Vigdis Hjorth
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1788733118
Longlisted for The Millions Best Translated Book Awards for Fiction Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favouritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different-a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth's novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages.
Author : Brian W. Downs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1966-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521048540
Originally published in 1966, this general survey of the 'classic' period of Norwegian literature was the first book in English devoted entirely to the period.
Author : Theodore Jorgenson
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
A history designed for college students, the author's objective being an account sufficiently brief to offer no difficulty from the point of view of time, & yet detailed enough to be convenient as a work of reference. Considerable space is given to modern literature. "An indispensable book."--NEW REPUBLIC. "A big book on a big theme."--NEW YORK TIMES. "A real contribution."--YALE REVIEW.
Author : Harald S. N•ss
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803233171
Volume 2.
Author : Kristina Malmio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030233537
This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spaces—from the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.
Author : Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782385401
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
Author : Jason
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2003-07-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1560975415
An evocative murder mystery set in the Norwegian countryside, this story, like all good murder mysteries, is a stew of passion, buried past crimes, revelations, and sharply defined characters who remain ambiguous to the very end. Norwegian author Stein Riverton's 1908 novel The Iron Wagon has never been translated into English. Now, using a striking two-color drawing style and re-casting the story with his iconic animal characters from his previous graphic novel Sshhhh!, the acclaimed cartoonist Jason has adapted The Iron Wagon into an original graphic novel that will appeal not only to fans of his work but also to mystery fans who will finally have a chance to experience Riverton's clever story.