—James Wood, The New YorkerHe is an ironist, a comedian, and an experimenter…Solstad has continually broken the available forms, trying out and combining new approaches—conventional and postmodernist, realist and formalist.
Dag Solstad (b. 1941) has written nearly thirty books, including Professor Andersen’s Night and Novel 11, Book 18 (forthcoming from New Directions). Admired worldwide by writers as diverse as Peter Handke and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Solstad has won the 2006 Brage Prize, the 1989 Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature, and the Norwegian Critics’ Prize in 1969, 1992, and 1999.
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
Translated by Steven T. Murray
—James Wood, The New YorkerHe is an ironist, a comedian, and an experimenter…Solstad has continually broken the available forms, trying out and combining new approaches—conventional and postmodernist, realist and formalist.
—Charles Finch, New York Times Book ReviewAll of the whispers have been right: Solstad is a vital novelist.
—The Times Literary SupplementFull of dryly comic, densely existential despair.
—The Times Literary SupplementDeath occupies the space between each of the footnotes that make up the corpus of Armand V, but what Solstad ultimately celebrates in it is the freedom of the novelist, and of the novel form, even as the soon-to-be-curtailed lives of his aging protagonists deny freedom’s very existence. It is a grand negation.
—The GuardianThe Solstadian long sentence feeds back into itself, meandering with the aimless inevitability of a river heading towards the sea.
—Literary HubHis strangely shaped, peculiarly textured worlds have very much to say to us about the truth of this reality we inhabit.
