| Norwegian title: | Tatt av kvinnen |
| Author: | Erlend Loe |
| Binding: | Heftet |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Publisher: | Cappelen Damm |
| Språk: | Bokmål |
| Originaltittel: | Tatt av kvinnen |
| Series: | Erlend Loes jubileumsserie |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9788202425968 |
It was around then she started to come more frequently. At night, just before I was going to bed. She would sit down and talk. Always about how much she loved silence and how good it was being alone. The talk was never ending. I would sometimes fall asleep, just drift off for a moment. But she would not notice. I woke, every time with a little twitch, sometimes with a noise in my throat.
Frankly, my dear is a humoristic story about powerlessness. It is a warning to all young men and women. You enjoy Loe's sarcasms and the young mans considerations about himself and his relationship to the woman. Erlend Loe made his literary debut with this novel at the age of 24 years old, and he received raving reviews for it.
"Erlend Loe is a wordsmith that elegantly stretches and underplays his characters amok-running inner monologues. With Loe the absurd is never threatening, it would rather seem to be a form of apolitical alienation process, a way to squeeze new acknowledgements out of well-known themes. While many of his colleagues will look themselves in the mirror, Loe holds up the Troll Mirror. His novels almost insist that prose is something other than reality."
From the Jury Statement, Aschehougprisen 2003
"Rarely, very rarely, do you read a novel that you know that you will remember. Usually it is only the classical works by the great masters of literature that will give you such a read. But we assure you: Erlend Loes Frankly, my dear will be remembered."
VG
"This is penmanship. It is also comical art (...) the situations and characters so mercilessly put on display, the sentences so wizzy and freshly put together, that you have to laugh rather loudly while reading. (...) The cunning and equilibrant way that the book is written in lifts Frankly, my dear to a high literary level. The satire never stands in the way of the disturbing, the existentially serious - or the poetic."
ERIK FOSNES HANSEN, writer
"Frankly, my dear by Erlend Loe is the story about a cronic pushover, that deviously and distansed tell the story about his sad relationship to The Woman. It is a crazy funny book, but also something more. It is sort of also a barometer of our time."
AFTENPOSTEN
Andreas Doppler / Erlend Loe
”Ytterst, ytterst sjelden leser man en roman man vet man vil huske. Vanligvis er det bare de klassiske verker av litteraturens store mestere som gir en slik leseopplevelse. Men vi forsikrer: Erlend Loes Tatt av kvinnen vil bli husket.”
"Dette er skrivekunst. Det er også komisk kunst (...) situasjonene og typene er så nådeløst utlevert, og setningene satt så snurrig og friskt sammen, at man må le ganske høyt når man leser. (…) Den underfundige og ekvilibristiske måte boken er skrevet på, bidrar til å heve Tatt av kvinnen opp på et høyt litterært nivå. Satiren står aldri i veien for det urovekkende, det eksistensielt alvorlige - eller det poetiske.”
Erik Fosnes Hansen, Aftenposten"Tatt av kvinnen av Erlend Loe er historien om en kronisk tøffelhelt, som forteller underfundig og distansert om sitt sørgelige forhold til Kvinnen. Det er en hylende morsom bok, men også noe mer, et slags tidsbarometer."
Terje Stemland, Aftenposten| Romania |
