Dag Solstad: 8 books

Book cover of T Singer
by Dag Solstad
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

**“Solstad doesn’t write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that’s my idea...the drama exists in his voice” (Lydia Davis) ** T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden,...
Book cover of Tentativo di descrivere l'impenetrabile
by Dag Solstad
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 8, 2011

Il primo romanzo tradotto in Italia della voce più importante della narrativa norvegese contemporanea. In procinto di partire per il Messico, Dag Solstad, narratore e coprotagonista dell'opera, riceve la telefonata di un amico d'infanzia che non vede da tempo, Arne Gunnar Larsen «AG», architetto,...
Book cover of La notte del professor Andersen
by Dag Solstad
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 2, 2015

Solo nel suo appartamento, il professor Andersen, cinquantacinquenne divorziato, docente di letteratura all’università di Oslo, sta festeggiando con solennità il Natale: l’albero decorato, l’abito elegante, la cena tradizionale. Mentre medita sul senso di appartenenza che gli dà abbandonarsi...
Book cover of Romanzo 11, libro 18
by Dag Solstad
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Arrivato ai cinquant’anni, Bjørn Hansen non può accettare l’idea che tutta la sua vita sia stata dominata dal caso, dal gioco sociale, dalle illusioni su cui ha via via costruito e demolito i castelli delle proprie scelte. Diciotto anni prima ha abbandonato la moglie, il figlio piccolo e una...
Book cover of Professor Andersen's Night
by Dag Solstad
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019

A dark and moving examination of one man’s derailed life, by the Norwegian master who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson) In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pal Andersen is alone,...
Book cover of Shyness and Dignity
by Dag Solstad
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of The...
Book cover of Timidezza e dignità
by Dag Solstad
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 8, 2011

Che cosa porta Elias Rukla, dopo venticinque anni di onorato servizio, alla grottesca crisi di nervi che gli fa ritenere conclusa la carriera d'insegnante e definitivamente compromessa la sua reputazione sociale? Mattina d'autunno, doppia ora di letteratura norvegese di fronte a una sonnolenta classe...
Book cover of Armand V
by Dag Solstad
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

New Directions proudly introduces two novels in English by the Norwegian master, who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson) Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he’s caught between his public duty...
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