Sleeping Tangle
Renberg, Tore: Sovende flokeWinner of Tarjei Vesaas’ First Book Prize
Situations and moods give way for each other, like unfinished TV shows, in this collection of short prose. The smallest details rest in a trance-inducing half-light: a tape with incomprehensible sound, a girl with white leather boots, an eleven year old child star with half-open mouth. SLEEPING TANGLE describes an ephemeral mentality, a nervously examining consciousness, a thought wandering about.
Praise for SLEEPING TANGLE:
“What some people consider terrifying (post) moderne phenomenas, like loneliness, threatened identity, broken glances and names run astray, awakens only wonder and fascination in Tore Renberg … SLEEPING TANGLE is an unusually talented debut by a young writer who surely will produce many interesting books in the years to come.”
(Klassekampen)
"Renberg exhibits skills both as an ironic and a comedian, reaching his peaks when he employs this talent. He is witty when writing about the fifteen year old sneaking into his father’s doctor’s office to steal mammographies. He is brilliant when he – like Roland Barthes – writes about Garbo’s face.”
(Dagbladet)
First published: 1995, Tiden
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