Norvik press

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THE ‘HISTORY OF BESTIALITY’ TRILOGY

JENS BJØRNEBOE

MOMENT OF FREEDOM

Translated by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

978-1-909408-37-1       224 PAGES       PAPERBACK       £11.95

POWDERHOUSE

Translated by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

978-1-909408-38-8       208 PAGES        PAPERBACK       £11.95

  

THE SILENCE

Translated by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

978-1-909408-39-5       208 PAGES        PAPERBACK       £11.95

The three volumes of Jens Bjørneboe’s  personal odyssey of investigation into 

the inhumanity of man range through the whole gamut of human 

destructiveness, from religious persecution to wars to colonial exploitation, to 

try to provide an answer to the problem of the evil of mankind – and, equally 

unfathomable, the problem of goodness in mankind. 

NORWEGIAN LITERATURE

Jens Bjørneboe • Hans Børli

HANS BØRLI

WE OWN THE FORESTS & OTHER POEMS

Translated by Louis Muinzer

PARALLEL ENGLISH AND NORWEGIAN TEXT

978-1-909408-20-3      164 PAGES       PAPERBACK      

 

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Hans Børli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark 

in south eastern Norway. He lived the physically demanding life of a 

lumberjack, but by night, he turned poet and spent the still, dark hours 

writing. His days, however, were an enactment of his poetry. Børli's verse is 

alive with his experiences of the Norwegian forests.

JENS BJØRNEBOE

THE SHARKS

Translated by Esther Greenleaf Mürer

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The last major novel by this controversial Norwegian author, The Sharks (1974) 

is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck. It is also the story of mankind's 

voyage into the twentieth century, attempting to preserve a fragile humanity 

in the face of the forces of self-destruction, told by the second mate, a 

philosophical loner whose destiny is bound up with that of his ship.

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NORWEGIAN LITERATURE

Henrik Ibsen

PAUL BINDING

WITH VINE-LEAVES IN HIS HAIR:

THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST IN IBSEN’S PLAYS

978-1-870041-67-6      224 PAGES     PAPERBACK      £14.95

The artist is of great importance to Ibsen's prose plays in his presentation of 

contemporary social tensions. This study focuses on Osvald the painter in 

Ghosts, Hjalmar Ekdal the photographer in The Wild Duck, Løvborg the writer 

in Hedda Gabler, and on the central figures in The Master Builder, John Gabriel 

Borkman and When We Dead Awaken. 

ROBIN YOUNG

TIME’S DISINHERITED CHILDREN:

CHILDHOOD, REGRESSION AND SACRIFICE IN THE PLAYS OF 

HENRIK IBSEN

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'an interesting thesis … presented in a positive and forceful 

manner'    

Scandinavian-American Bulletin

This thought-provoking study shows how Ibsen was crucially concerned with 

the extent to which the past influenced the actions of his characters. How 

Ibsen explores this theme, from the early poetry and Viking dramas to the last 

plays, is related throughout to the cultural and social developments in the 

Norway of his day.

TURNING THE CENTURY: 

CENTENNIAL ESSAYS ON IBSEN

Michael Robinson (ed.)

978-1-870041-64-5        288 PAGES        PAPERBACK        £14.95

To commemorate the centenary of the death of the Norwegian playwright 

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), this volume contains a selection of the finest 

articles published in the British journal Scandinavica on the subject of Ibsen’s 

work.

The selection has been made to reflect the breadth and variety of scholarship 

devoted to Ibsen’s plays during the past five decades.

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DANISH LITERATURE

Klaus Rifbjerg • Kirsten Thorup 

KIRSTEN THORUP

THE GOD OF CHANCE

Translated by Janet Garton

978-1-909408-03-6                      300  PAGES   

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The God of Chance focuses on the lives of two very different women: Ana, a 

career woman from Copenhagen whose work is her life, and the young 

Mariama, whom she meets on a beach in Gambia and who becomes a 

substitute for the family she has never had.The novel moves to Copenhagen 

and then to London as Ana brings Mariama to Europe to be educated; the girl 

finds the cultural shock intensely difficult, whilst Ana’s obsession with her leads 

to her own carefully controlled life descending into chaos. The story depicts 

the gulf between European affluence and the poverty of a developing 

country; it explores our dependence on money, our need to be in control in 

every situation, and the problematic relationship between sponsor or donor 

and recipient. 

‘this distinguished novel by one of Denmark’s foremost writers …  

[a] compellingly readable translation’ 

TLS

KLAUS RIFBJERG

TERMINAL INNOCENCE

Translated by Paul Larkin

978-1-909408-13-5                      262  PAGES   

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Klaus Rifbjerg’s 1958 novel is a constantly reprinted classic of twentieth-

century Danish literature. It is the story of the unequal friendship between two 

teenagers, Janus and Tore. Tore is mature beyond his years, impressing 

teachers and fellow pupils alike with his knowledge and charm. It is a foregone 

conclusion that he will fall in love with the equally peerless Helle, and she with 

him. They seem set to achieve the perfect union; but there is a serpent in 

paradise in the form of Helle’s mother, fru Junkersen. Janus is wary of her from 

the start – images of snakes, spiders and big cats crowd in every time he sees 

her. She exerts a powerful and infantilizing hold over Helle, who dare not allow 

her desire for Tore to develop naturally into a full sexual relationship, thus 

prolonging an unnatural state of unconsummated desire. At the climactic 

party thrown by fru Junkersen the trap is sprung, and Janus watches helplessly 

as the golden dream turns into a nightmare.

'Is stylistic combination of rawness and verbal invention explains 

to a great degree the huge impact Terminal Innocence had on its 

first public.' 

New Statesman

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