Self-control
By: Stig S3/4terbakken ; translated by Sean Kinsella
Contributors: Kinsella, Seán
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Norwegian Literature Series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng
Translated from: nor
Translation of: Selvbeherskelse
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781564788139; 9781564787859
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Husbands; Married people; Paralytics; Family; Fiction
Other titles: Selvbeherskelse
Work titles: Selvbeherskelse
Description: "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."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "Originally published in Norwegian as Selvbeherskelse by J.W. Cappelen, Oslo, 1998."