Self-Control

Informationen zum Autor Stig Saeterbakken (1966 2012) was one of Norway s most acclaimed contemporary writers. His novels include Through the Night and Siamese (also published by Dalkey Archive). Klappentext "Originally published in Norwegian as Selvbeherskelse by J.W. Cappelen, Oslo, 1998." Zusammenfassung The second volume in Stig Sæterbakken’s loosely connected “S Trilogy,” Self-Control moves from the dark portrait of codependent marriage featured in the acclaimed Siamese to a world of solitary loneliness and repression. A middle-aged man, Andreas Feldt, feeling that he is unable to communicate with his adult daughter over the course of a friendly lunch, announces on an inexplicable whim that he is going to get a divorce. Though his daughter is initially shocked, she quickly assimilates this information and all returns to normal. Faced with this virtual invisibility—for no matter what actions he takes, the world seems to take no notice—Andreas is cut adrift from the certainties of his life and forced to navigate through a society where it seems virtually everyone is only one loss of self-control away from an explosion of dissatisfaction and rage.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Kinsella, Saeterbakken, Stig Sæterbakken, Stig Kinsella Saeterbakken
• Assisted by: Se N. Kinsella (Translation), Sean Kinsella (Translation), Seán Kinsella (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9781564788139
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-813-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Norwegian Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature