Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. (Dag Solstad Quotes)
“For a brief moment it is his fate, and nothing else, that is frozen into immobility on the stage. The moment of the minor figure. Both before and after this he remains the same, the man who reels off those smart lines, one of which has acquired an immortal status in Norwegian literature: ‘If you take the life-lie away from an average person, you take away his happiness as well.”
Dag Solstad
“He couldn’t imagine using the word ‘rewarding’ about a work of art – for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. – but thought solely that it enlightened him, made him see, cynically and withough false expectations, so that he felt he was alive.”
Dag Solstad
“Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because it is a matter of the greatest significance, yet nevertheless we feel bound to it by a sense of duty.”
Dag Solstad
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