Kjell Askildsen

Stories

Everything Like Before

Sean Kinsella

y un repentino pensamiento liberador

Últimas notas de Thomas F. para la humanidad

A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly nothing; besieged by urban desert or actual wilderness, by alcohol, cigarettes, and ghosts; by mothers, fathers, and lovers who have disappeared... Written in a seemingly unadorned style, with flashes of pitch-black humor, Askildsen's devastating stories convey in few words a portrait of life and thought as they are actually experienced, balanced between despair and hope, memories and expectations. He is recognized as one of the greatest Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, and among the greatest short-story authors of all time.

Selected Stories

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From one of the greatest Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing. A man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway café -- Kjell Askildsen's characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen's characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.

Uma Vasta e Deserta Paisagem

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Askildsen es un escritor preciso y sobrio que busca con obsesión la palabra exacta, y por eso su obra es tan breve. Solo escribe cuando tiene algo que contar. Este libro reúne todos los cuentos escritos por el genial escritor noruego entre 1953 y 1996. La angustia y el anhelo de felicidad del ser humano están presentes en estos relatos. Askildsen afirma que desea crear desasosiego, «no me gusta un relato que no crea desasosiego», y lo consigue a través de sus personajes, seres normales y a menudo solitarios. Las relaciones familiares y las parejas, el tedio y la rutina, son algunos de los elementos recurrentes en estos impactantes textos, auténticas obras maestras del género.

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No soy así

roman

Omgivelser

Tomasza F. ostatnie zapiski dla ludności

The first English translation of Askildsen's best writing from a 40-year period. Askildsen (b. 1929) first came to prominence in Norwegian literature in the 1950s with his Kafkaesque accounts of alienated individuals in a hostile environment. His reputation has grown since and he is now recognized as a major author. A recent translation of Askildsen's writing into French invited comparison with Beckett.

A Sudden Liberating Thought

Kjell Askildsen

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