Norwegian novelist who sustained a reputation as both seer and comrade for readers and writers for half a century The novel Professor Andersen’s Night (1996) by the Norwegian author Dag Solstad, who ...

Dag Solstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Steven T. Murray. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2628-8 This unique, fascinating novel is composed of footnotes to a larger work ...

One gray morning in Oslo, a class at Fagerborg High School is making its usual hash of Ibsen’s play “The Wild Duck.” The atmosphere is a Monday mixture of lassitude, cockiness, and routine. Elias ...

Solstad’s two newly translated novels are Armand V (New Directions, May), composed of footnotes to a nonexistent novel, and T Singer (New Directions, May), which follows its protagonist through a ...

Hailed by Haruki Murakami and his fellow Norwegian, the IMPAC-winning Per Petterson, Dag Solstad is one of the most interesting and inventive writers working in fiction today. First published in 2006, ...

Veteran novelist Dag Solstad is master of a certain brand of Norwegian neurosis, although perhaps it could be the generic, worldwide brand of that affliction that he is dealing in - who is to know.

Most midlife crises involve a pair of leather trousers, a younger, blonder partner or – if budget allows – a red Ferrari. The protagonist of leading Norwegian author Dag Solstad’s new novel opts for ...

FICTION: EILEEN BATTERSBYreviews Professor Andersen's NightBy Dag Solstad, translated by Agnes Scott Langeland Harvill Secker, 154pp. £15.99 WHAT WOULD YOU do if you saw a murder being committed right ...

The existential novel is alive and well in “the rockpile that is Norway”. That is how the distinguished Norwegian writer Dag Solstad describes his native country in his novel Novel 11, Book 18, ...

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As a diplomat, he is representing a country allied to America; as a person, he is against American foreign policy. When something tragic happens, he thinks it’s his fault. Very unusual — and, in the ...