A Good Place (norwegian Modern and Contemporary Literature Translation Series)
About This Novel
Kjaer Eskelsen, the best contemporary short story writer in Norway, is a masterpiece that interrogates the human condition of existence; his cold writing style takes the theme of existentialism to the extreme; it directly touches on the loneliness and fragility of human beings. It seems cold and disillusioned, but also reveals a condensed black humor. Kjaer Eskelsen (1929-) is known as the best contemporary short story writer in Norway. He has won the Norwegian Critics' Literary Award in 1983 and 1991, the Prague Literary Award in 1996, and the Swedish Academy Nordic Literature Award in 2009. He is famous for his description of the situation of individuals in an unfriendly environment. He is good at facing the loneliness in life with black humor. This book collects the most representative short works of Kjaer Eskelsen in his writing career. It explores the misunderstanding and alienation between close relationships in modern society from a new perspective, and delicately and profoundly depicts the uneasy emotions hidden under the surface of ordinary people's ordinary lives, as well as the unsolvable problems when people get along with each other. The characters in these stories live in the world in different ways, being both observers and observed, falling into intolerable or difficult predicaments. Incomplete dialogues and momentary introspections always demonstrate the power of silence and confrontation.
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