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The companion volume to Espedal's Against Art, written in his characteristic poetic prose. In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely personal, it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal's own experiences. Against Nature, a companion volume to Espedal's earlier Against Art, is an examination of factory work, love's labor, and the work of writing. Espedal dwells on the notion that working is requ...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal‿s work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author‿s personal experiences. His first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas, Against Art told us how a boy approaches art and eventually becomes a writer, Against Nature examined love‿s labor‿the job of writing, and in Bergerners, he is torn between his love for his home town and what lies beyond. Now, in The Year, we encounter the au...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely personal, it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal's own experiences. In that vein, his novel Against Art is not just the story of a boy growing up to be a writer, but it is also the story of writing. Specifically, it is about the profession of writing--the routines, responsibility, and obstacles. Yet, Against Art is also about being a father, a son, ...

A story of a boy growing up to be a writer. It discusses the profession of writing - the routines, responsibility, and obstacles. It also discusses being a father, a son, and a grandson, a family and a family's tales, and, how preceding generations mark their successors.

Offers an examination of factory work, love's labor, and the work of writing. The author 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 things-impossible love, books, myths, and taboos?

The first step in any trip or journey is always a footstep - the brave or curious act of putting one foot in front of the other and stepping out of the house onto the sidewalk below. This title contemplates what this ambulatory mode of travel has meant for great artists and thinkers, including Rousseau, Kant, Hazlitt, Thoreau, and Rimbaud.

Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, Norway--its streets and buildings and the people who walk those streets and live in those buildings"--Jacket.