I love that book. It's so simple and yet not. I didn't realise Loe was Norwegian.Originally Posted by Annamariah
I've also read Hunger by Knut Hamsun and will be reading more of his work at some time. I'd especially like to read Pan and Mysteries.
Does Icelandic count? I very much enjoy the works of Halldor Laxness.
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I love him! Every line he writes is like poetry.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Sjol, Björk's text writer, wrote a book too. Very poetic indeed. Blauwvos in Dutch (Blue Fox can't be right...). But that's Icelandic too...
Scandinavian lit seems to have this peaceful, vast, empty and yet full feeling in it. Strange, but true. Like their countries... The Swedish film version of Wallander had that too.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
I've been reading a bit more lately (and being on holiday helps) but I have been enjoying the Karin Fossum Sejer crime novels. Pretty well written detective/thriller books. I'm on the third book at the moment.
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