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Title: Sudden Liberating Thought by Kjell Askildsen, Sverre Lyngstad ISBN: 1-870041-24-0 Publisher: Norvik Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Why suffering is neccassary
Comment: As any other writer, Askildsen is linked to many other authors. I've seen Kafka has been mentioned. One can also add Beckett, Raymond Carver, Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Hemingway, Albert Camus and many more to that list.

I've learned norwegian mainly to read his books with his own direct words, which are translated to almost 20 languages now.

In Askildsens books, you won't even see a dark-brown color in the end of the tunnel. His characters are all, in one way or the other, physically or psychologically suffering. Love, Sex, Religion, Politics, everything is jilting. Bu they go on. And you go along with them.

And in the end, if you're trying hard enough, I think you'll get a deeper understanding of why suffering is neccessary.

Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best writers of short stories in the world today
Comment: Askildsen may very well be one of the best writers of short stories alive today. His extremely consistent style brings you some of the most scary, and bitingly/bitterly funny, stories this side of Kafka. More people than those reading a Scandinavian language deserve to meet Askildsens bleak yet brilliant universe.

Rating: 5
Summary: This is a most excellent collection of short-stories....
Comment: This is a most excellent collection of short-stories where Askildsen writes in words what we all know about the psychological game of the everyday life. It is poshly hidden behind the most impressing author-skills I have encountered in a very long time. His style can very much be compared with Kafka's The Trial, at the same time there is resemblence with the first parts of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. This is most complete short-story collection, full of innovative and elaborate characters, still highly with their feet on the ground. It is also full of sarcasm, and it will force you to smile. It is excellent for reading in groups. Feel free to contact me for more thorough information, or if you want to discuss the interpretations of the book:)! (excuse my english)