My Private Life
By Tomas Espedal
Description
Often mentioned in the same breath as Karl Ove Knausgård, Tomas Espedal has been hailed at home and abroad as one of Scandinavia's most important writers for his radical and stirring mix of fiction and autobiography.
My Private Life is a photo-book, as well as a novel. The photographer is Tomas Espedal, and the pictures document his life and surroundings through the past fifteen years: There are pictures of Espedal’s friends and family, the houses he’s lived in, the desks he’s sat at while writing, hotel beds he has slept in. The accompanying text charts the development of an artist’s life and discusses the intimate relation between life and art, and how the two more or less become one, as Espedal has displayed in each book he has written since the turn of the century.
Espedal reveals himself as an eminent photographer, with a sharp eye for motifs where most of us wouldn’t even think of looking for them.
Product information
Original titleMitt privatliv
Publication year2014
