Other Journeys
Skårderud, Finn: Andre reiser"I’m standing at a bus station in a small town. A young man buys a ticket. He looks brave and immature, enthusiastic and helpless. I’m thinking that he is like me, like I once used to be. And like many of us are when we travel alone for the first time. I’m thinking that he’s going far away from home."
In this collection of texts, psychiatrist Finn Skårderud brings us along on his travels around the world – but the book is really about people and encounters between people, and about how involvement and eagerness are prerequisites if you want to stay alive. To a large extent, this book is about our efforts to relate to ourselves and to others, and about our need to protect ourselves – whether we are healthy or ill, calm or in turmoil.
The many geographical jumps in this book serve as an entrance into inter-personal movements. There are stories of love and disappointment, of violations and shame, of insomnia and sex, of travel through time, remembrance and memories. And of death; the last journey.
" ...new intellectual journeys that are marked by a rare joy of formulation, an ambitious interpretive eagerness, an enormously broad spectrum of knowledge and complete as well as incomplete thoughts." (Aftenposten)
First published: 2004, Aschehoug Non-Fiction
Translations: Danish (Tiderne skifter, Copenhagen), Swedish ( Natur & Kultur, Stockholm).
Finn Skårderud: Biography and bibliography
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| Language | Foreign publisher |
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| Swedish | Natur och Kultur |
