Lead Review

  • Book: Professor Andersen’s Night
  • Location: Oslo
  • Author: Dag Solstad

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Despite murder’s centrality and the vivid Oslo setting, this novel is no piece of Nordic noir. Its progenitors are French existentialism, the nouveau roman with its subtle play of time on space, and Austria’s Thomas Bernhard with its long sentences following the contortions of a mind defying rational intentions. -Paul Binding-

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