Armand V
Subtitle: footnotes to an unexcavated novel
By: Dag Solstad ; translated by Steven T. Murray
Contributors: Murray, Steven T., translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780811226288
Subjects: Diplomats; Life change events; Choice (Psychology); Fathers and sons; Fiction
Work titles: Armand V.
Description: "Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he's caught between his public duty to support foreign wars in the Middle East and his private disdain for Western intervention. He hides behind knowing, ironic statements, which no one grasps and which change nothing. Armand's son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, and this leads to catastrophic, heartbreaking consequences. Told exclusively in footnotes to an unwritten book, this is Solstad's radically unconventional novel about how we experience the passing of time: how it fragments, drifts, quickens, and how single moments can define a life"--
Notes: "A New Directions Book."

First published in Norwegian as Armand V. : fotnoter til en uutgravd roman.