num_pages: 187
description: The Scandinavian imagination seems obsessed with the concept of guilt - an obsession Norwegian novelist Borgen (1902-79) appears to fully share. This novel's main character, Matias Roos, is a splintered personality obsessed by frontiers, guilty of an unspecified crime, and in search of a path of atonement. The book begins as an interior monologue but rapidly becomes a bewildering dialogue between ""I"" and ""he"" in which Roos both describes his actions and passes judgement on them; the boundary between Roos' personae is fluid and permeable, but until the dÃ©nouement, dialogue between them is intentionally confusing as to voice, plot, and reality...Borgen skillfully fuses modernist techniques and more traditional obsessions in a work refulgent with contemporary angst if not indeed with ancient fire and brimstone."" - Booklist. ""A seminal and fascinating text"" - Choice.
language: English
title: The Scapegoat
titlecomplete: The Scapegoat
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Norvik Pr