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Dag Solstad - Shyness and Dignity - 9781843432104 - KKD0005885
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Shyness and Dignity

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Description for Shyness and Dignity Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He makes sure he has his headache pills and leaves for work as he has done every morning for the past twenty-five years.

He is only too familiar with his pupils' hostile attitude both to his lectures and to himself, but today he feels their impatience, their oafishness, more painfully than ever before and, after their ritually dismissive and bored response to his passionate lecture on Ibsen's The Wild ... Read more, he reaches a point of crisis.

Shyness and Dignity is the story of a man's awakening to a world that no longer recongises what he has always stood for or his talent. Dag Solstad is Norway's leading author, an icon among Scandinavian writers and a leading figure of the political left. This novel, in Sverre Lyngstad's fine translation, is one of Solstad's major works.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843432104
SKU
KKD0005885
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad is one of Norway's leading contemporary authors. His work has consistently won critical acclaim and he is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. All three of his novels available in English have been listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Shyness and Dignity was shortlisted in 2007 and Novel 11, Book ... Read more

Reviews for Shyness and Dignity
He’s a kind of surrealistic writer, very strange novels. I think that’s serious literature
Haruki Murakami I find him an utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer. For me, 2015 was The Year of Solstad
James Wood
New Yorker
Dag Solstad is an unflinching explorer of the plight of educated humankind in the face of the inexplicable, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Shyness and Dignity


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