Kjell Askildsen: Selected Stories Scottish Literature SeriesWritten in an unadorned style, with flashes of pitch black humor, Kjell Askildsen's devastating stories convey in few words life and thought as they are actually experienced, balanced between despair and hope, memories and expectations. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest Norwegian writers of the twentieth century and among the greatest short story authors of all time. A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly
and compose music—Raymond Roussel demonstrates why it is that André Breton termed him "the greatest mesmerizer of modern times
the European Union
a wicked account of coming of age in a Belgian convent school
A woman falls into a coma
Klaus Klump: A Man is a harrowing portrait of a man without values
Though it has a lovely name
summing up a century of triumphs and disappointments
This collection of eight stories—cynical and sympathetic by turns—represents the author’s attempt to document and understand the conflicts
Fourteen Small Stories
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is set in a twenty-first century Russia
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