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Knots : stories
- Title
- Knots : stories / Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.
- Author
- Øyehaug, Gunnhild, 1975-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 17-722 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dickson, Kari
- Description
- viii, 164 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway's most celebrated writers. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. As one character reflects, "You never know how things might turn out, you never know how anything will turn out, tomorrow the walls might fall down, the room disappear." Cleverly balancing the sensuous, the surreal, and the comical, Øyehaug achieves a playful familiarity with the absurd that never overreaches the needs of her stories. Full of characters who can't help tying knots in themselves and each other, these tales make the world just a little more strange, and introduce a major international voice of searing vision, grace, and humor"--
- Uniform Title
- Knutar. English
- Alternative Title
- Knutar.
- Nice and mild.
- Take off, landing.
- Small knot.
- Gold pattern.
- Overtures.
- Renowned engineer.
- Girl holding my hand.
- From the lighthouse.
- Grandma is sleeping.
- Entire family disappears.
- Subject
- Contents
- Nice and mild -- Take off, landing -- Small knot -- Gold pattern -- Overtures -- A renowned engineer -- The girl holding my hand -- From the lighthouse -- Grandma is sleeping -- An entire family disappears -- It's raining in love -- Compulsion -- Oh, life -- Echo -- The deer at the edge of the forest -- It's snowing -- Fortune smiles on Mona Lisa --Deal -- Trapeze -- Blanchot slips under a bridge -- Air -- Transcend -- Meanwhile, on another planet -- Vitalie meets an officer -- The object takes an exalted place in the discourse -- Two by two -- Notes.
- Call Number
- JFC 17-722
- ISBN
- 9780374181673
- 0374181675
- LCCN
- 2016045040
- OCLC
- 2016045040
- Author
- Øyehaug, Gunnhild, 1975- author.
- Title
- Knots : stories / Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Dickson, Kari, translator.
- Added Title
- Nice and mild.Take off, landing.Small knot.Gold pattern.Overtures.Renowned engineer.Girl holding my hand.From the lighthouse.Grandma is sleeping.Entire family disappears.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 17-722