Siamese

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). Stokes Schwartz's translation work includes technical, historical, and literary pieces. He studied Scandinavian languages and literature-with a concentration in Norwegian-at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Klappentext A brutally comic portrait of marriage, taken to extremes reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard. Zusammenfassung Edwin Mortens is almost blind, but has good hearing; his wife Erna is hard of hearing, but has excellent eyes. Paralyzed from the waist down, Edwin sits locked in his bathroom all day, every day, trying to liberate his mind from his body.

Product details

• Authors: Stig Saeterbakken
• Assisted by: Stokes Schwartz (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2010
• EAN: 9781564783257
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-325-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Norwegian Literature Series; Norwegian Literature; Norwegian Literature Series; Norwegian Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature