Shyness and Dignity - Couverture souple

Solstad, Dag

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784876933 ISBN 13 : 9781784876937

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2021

Synopsis

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 Duck, he reaches a point of crisis.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dag Solstad is one of Norway’s leading and most celebrated contemporary writers. Solstad has won many Norwegian and international awards, most recently the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2017, and is the only author to have won the Norwegian Critics Prize three times. All three of his novels already published in English – Shyness and Dignity, Novel 11, Book 18 and Professor Andersen's Night – have been listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784876933
• ISBN 13: 9781784876937
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Vintage Classics; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VCL/vintage-classics/; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie