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Shyness and dignity
Solstad, Dag, 1941-2021
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Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He makes sure he has his headache pills and leaves for work as he has done every morning for the past twenty-five years. He is only too familiar with his pupils' hostile attitude both to his lectures and to himself, but today he feels their impatience, their oafishness, more painfully than ever before and, after their ritually dismissive and bored response to his passionate lecture on Ibsen's The Wild Duck, he reaches a point of crisis.
Main title:
Shyness and dignity / Dag Solstad ; translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad.
Author:
Solstad, Dag, 1941-, authorLyngstad, Sverre, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2021.©2006
Collation:
160 pages ; 18 cm.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2006.Translated from the Norwegian.
ISBN:
9781784876937 (pbk)9781784876937 (paperback)
Dewey class:
839.8238
LC class:
PT8951.29.O5
Language:
EnglishNorwegian
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Subject:
BRN:
879402
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | SOLS | On loan - Due: 12 Jul 2026 |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | SOLS | On loan - Due: 07 Jul 2026 |
| Southbank Library | Fiction | SOLS | On loan - Due: 07 Jul 2026 |