Biography - Diary - Letter

BIOGRAPHY is a biography. DIARY sorts its notes by date. LETTERS are addressed to another, trusted person. The subjects are family, love, death and writing itself. The person writing is Tomas Espedal, one of Norway's most powerful writers. Collected in one volume, the books stand tall and strong. Norwegian class.

Tomas Espedal's writing makes the blood gash and the angels sing, and the effect is paralyzing, leaving the reader deep in thoughts. In Biography. Diary. Letters. Espedal takes on three of the basic genres of literature - and hits an extremely high stylistic level. Biography is prose of the highest order, but the text is more poetic than what most poets are capable of - and at the same time more incisive and merciless than most banal diaries. This is dazzling.

BIOGRAPHY is a biography. DIARY sorts its notes by date. LETTER is addressed to a trusted person. The subjects are family, love, death and writing itself. The person writing is Tomas Espedal, one of  Norway's most powerful writers. Collected in one volume, the books stand tall and strong. Norwegian class.

Tomas Espedal's writing makes the blood gash and the angels sing, and the effect is paralyzing, leaving the reader deep in thoughts. In BIOGRAPHY. DIARY. LETTER Espedal takes on three of the basic genres of literature - and hits an extremely high stylistic level. Biography is prose of the highest order, but the text is more poetic than what most poets are capable of - and at the same time more incisive and merciless than most banal diaries. This is dazzling.

It's completely unfathomable that fiction of the quality that Espedal delivers again and again, shouldn't be able to reach a broader audience.