Imprint: Harvill Secker
Published: 08/06/2006
ISBN: 9781843432104
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 12mm x 135mm
Weight: 177g
RRP: £12.99
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 Ibsen's The Wild Duck, he reaches a point of crisis.
Shyness and Dignity is the story of a man's awakening to a world that no longer recongises what he has always stood for or his talent. Dag Solstad is Norway's leading author, an icon among Scandinavian writers and a leading figure of the political left. This novel, in Sverre Lyngstad's fine translation, is one of Solstad's major works.
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Published: 08/06/2006
ISBN: 9781843432104
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 12mm x 135mm
Weight: 177g
RRP: £12.99
He’s a kind of surrealistic writer, very strange novels. I think that’s serious literature
I find him an utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer. For me, 2015 was The Year of Solstad
Dag Solstad is an unflinching explorer of the plight of educated humankind in the face of the inexplicable, whose artistry matches his ambitious theme
One for the grumpy old men
[A] compact and layered book... Solstad has a revered role in Norway as the chronicler of his country's changing times