Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad

Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad

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Summary

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

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Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad

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He’s a kind of surrealistic writer, very strange novelsI think that’s serious literature -- Haruki Murakami
Without question Norway's bravest, most intelligent novelist -- Per Petterson, author of Our Stealing Horses
Dag Solstad, Norway's most distinguished living writer, is a clear-eyed moralist who takes an existentialist's interest in the compromises, evasions and accommodations we make to get through life... Wryly humorous and needle-sharp in skewering pretension, Solstad is unlike anyone currently writing in English... A deeply rewarding novel * Sunday Times *
[An] exquisitely composed novel... Dag Solstad is an unflinching explorer of the plight of educated humankind in the face of the inexplicable whose artistry matches his ambitious theme -- Paul Binding * Independent *
At times dark and moving, even, on occasion, unexpectedly funny, Professor Andersen's Night tackles a premise which would prove just as intriguing in a pacey thriller... It is visceral in its investigations into the derailing of one man's life in all its sticky, existential glory * Scotland on Sunday *
Dag Solstad is one of Norway's leading contemporary authors. His work has consistently won critical acclaim and he is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. All three of his novels available in English have been listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Shyness and Dignity was shortlisted in 2007 and Novel 11, Book 18 and Professor Andersen's Night were longlisted for the 2009 and 2012 prizes respectively.
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ISBN 13 9781843432128
ISBN 10 1843432129
Title Professor Andersen's Night
Author Dag Solstad
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2011-11-03
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.