A Sudden Liberating Thought
Askildsen, Kjell: En plutselig frigjørende tankeA Sudden Liberating Thought consists of 13 short stories, from the debut book From Now On I’ll Walk You All the Way Home (1953), Side Scene (1966), Nothing for Nothing (1982) and Thomas F’s Last Notes to the Public (1983). The title short story A Sudden Liberating Thought was first published in this collection. Together, these short stories create an impression of one of the greatest prose writers in Norwegian post war literature.
Praise for A Sudden Liberating Thought:
“Great short story art”
Ekstrabladet, Denmark
“Euro class prose”
Information, Denmark
“The coping stone to a great work”
Dagbladet
First published: 1987, Forlaget Oktober
Kjell Askildsen: Biography and bibliography
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