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Against Nature - Tomas Espedal & James Anderson

By Tomas Espedal & James Anderson

Release Date: 2016-03-15

Genre: Fiction & Literature

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The companion volume to Espedalā€™s Against Art, written in his characteristic poetic prose.

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedalā€™s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedalā€™s own experiences. Against Nature, a companion volume to Espedalā€™s earlier Against Art, is an examination of factory work, loveā€™s labor, and the work of writing. Espedal dwells on the notion that working is required in order to live in compliance with society, but is this natural? And how can it be natural when he is drawn toward impossible thingsā€”impossible love, books, myths, and taboos? He is drawn into the stories of AbĆ©lard and HĆ©loĆÆse, of young Marguerite Duras and her Chinese lover, and soon realizes that he, too, is turning into a person who must choose to live against nature.

ā€œA masterpiece of literary understatement. Everybody who has recently been thirsting for a new, unexhausted realism, like water in the desert, will love this book.ā€ā€”Die Zeit, on the Norwegian edition

Against Nature - Tomas Espedal & James Anderson

By Tomas Espedal & James Anderson

Release Date: 2016-03-15

Genre: Fiction & Literature

(0 ratings)
Read Download
The companion volume to Espedalā€™s Against Art, written in his characteristic poetic prose.

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedalā€™s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedalā€™s own experiences. Against Nature, a companion volume to Espedalā€™s earlier Against Art, is an examination of factory work, loveā€™s labor, and the work of writing. Espedal dwells on the notion that working is required in order to live in compliance with society, but is this natural? And how can it be natural when he is drawn toward impossible thingsā€”impossible love, books, myths, and taboos? He is drawn into the stories of AbĆ©lard and HĆ©loĆÆse, of young Marguerite Duras and her Chinese lover, and soon realizes that he, too, is turning into a person who must choose to live against nature.

ā€œA masterpiece of literary understatement. Everybody who has recently been thirsting for a new, unexhausted realism, like water in the desert, will love this book.ā€ā€”Die Zeit, on the Norwegian edition

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