Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript
10 best books like Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript (Jens Bjørneboe): Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon, Textermination: A Novel, Island People, Impossible Object, Take Five, Wayfarers, Lasso rundt fru Luna, Replacements, Spring Night, Elling
Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk – about childhood and parents and...
| Author | Christine Brooke-Rose |
| ISBN | 0811212165 |
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
| Author | Coleman Dowell |
| ISBN | 1564780937 |
In this complex novel, a gay man who has fled the violence of the city for an island retreat spends his time keeping a journal and writing stories. He invents a female alter-ego who haunts him, as does the ghost of the murderer who occupied his house in the 19th century; ultimately these hauntings are manifestations...
| Author | Nicholas Mosley |
| ISBN | 1564784657 |
"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended."
In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love...
| Author | D. Keith Mano |
| ISBN | 1564781933 |
Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing "Jesus 2001", what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather, best known for his movie "The Clap That Took Over the World"), descendent of a wealthy...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 1557132119 |
The novel portrays the wayfarers August and Edevart's experiences while they travel around in Norway for more or less random work. The trilogy continues with August three years later, and concludes with The Road Leads On in 1933.
The events in Wayfarers take place between 1864 and the 1870s. The...
«En høy, vadefuglaktig mann» stiger inn i nattoget på Østbanestasjonen i Oslo. Det er den 32 år gamle komponisten Ask Burle. Han er på vei hjem for å følge sin yngre bror Balder til graven. Og der, i den skakende, nattsvarte sovevognkupeen, begynner Ask Burles jakt etter den tapte tid. Herfra...
| Author | Tor Ulven |
| ISBN | 1564787133 |
Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven’s suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of fifteen unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, having reached a point of stasis in their lives, directing the book...
| Author | Tarjei Vesaas |
| ISBN | 1931243913 |
First published in Norway in 1954, this lyrical novel is about an abrupt change from childish dreams and safety to grown-up responsibilities and happiness. On the surface it deals with what happens to two youngsters left for a night alone on their parents’ farm, but like The Ice Palace and other great...
| Author | Ingvar Ambjørnsen |
| ISBN | 1596922567 |
ELLING is the story of two outsiders struggling to come to terms with the real world. Recently released from a mental hospital, Elling (shy, neurotic, plagued by a wildly overactive imagination) and his best friend Kjell Barnes (big, dim, fundamentally opposed to changing his underwear) share an...
| Author | Jan Kjærstad |
| ISBN | 1585677655 |
Jonas Wergeland, a successful TV documentary producer with a touch of God's gift to women, returns one evening from the World's Fair in Seville to find his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is a quest to find the killer, encompassing by turns a picaresque and endlessly inventive look at...
| Author | Stig Sæterbakken |
| ISBN | 1564788628 |
Dentist Karl Meyer s worst nightmare comes true when his son, Ole-Jakob, takes his own life. This tragedy is the springboard for a complex novel posing essential questions about human experience: What does sorrow do to a person? How can one live with the pain of unbearable loss? How far can a man be driven...
When Jenny was first published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral — “this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know.” The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration...
Imot kunsten er en roman om en gutt som blir forfatter. Det er en poetisk, nærgående skildring av levd liv, og det er en beretning om en slekt og en slekts historier, om hvordan tidligere generasjoner setter sitt avtrykk i etterkommerne.
«Imot kunsten handler om savn, og Tomas Espedal fortjener...
| Author | Kjell Askildsen |
| ISBN | 8203112609 |
Inneholder tre av forfatterens noveller: Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten handler om Thomas og inneholder en rekke små kapitler som forteller om den gamle mannens oppsummering av livet. Et stort øde landskap handler om frihetens muligheter og betingelser. Hundene i Tessaloniki:...
| Author | Johan Borgen |
| ISBN | 0811208273 |
In Lillelord, Norway’s contemporary master Johan Borgen (1902-79) demonstrates his belief that our lives tend toward schizophrenia. Wilfred Sagen at fourteen is still a perfectly turned out, impeccably behaved "Little Lord Fauntleroy" to his family, but to his teachers he is a disruptive enigma...
| Author | Edward Dahlberg |
| ISBN | 0811200299 |
Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg's life as a child and young man, and a portrait in depth of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. It is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Seldom has there been so ruthless,...
