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Prose: September

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(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

Svetlana Aleksijevich:
Freedom: Man, Literature and Russia
Kagge forlag, Norway

The book consists of three lectures the journalist and author have given in recent years: In Oslo in 2017, the Nobel lecture in Stockholm in 2015 and the thank you speech at the awarding of the German booksellers' peace prize in Frankfurt am Main in 2013. Here we find out more about the extensive work behind the Chronicle of the "Red" Empire. It took Aleksijevich 30 years to write the five books, and during the lecture at the Literature House in Oslo 28. August 2017 she mentions them as one big book: "The Chronicle consists of five books, but is basically the only major book on the history of the Soviet-Russian soul followed for almost a hundred years." buried with them. "This was the last generation to be mortally infected by communism. Enchanted by the Utopia. Not even we, your children, can understand them. The people in the latest books were different. They talked about when they fought in Afghanistan without understanding why they were sacrificing their lives, they told of when they scraped molten graphite from the roof of the Chernobyl reactor. They did a job that robots should have done. Then the grand "red" empire fell apart, and these people were left to rot again in the new world. " Freedom is translated by Hege Sunne Bergan and Alf B. Glad. The introduction is by author Erika Fatland. 

Carsten Jensen:
Kældermennesker
Political Publishers, Denmark 

When this newspaper goes into print, Carsten Jensen's new debate book will be out. The title gives associations to the Russian author Fjodor Dostoevsky's book from 1864, which in Norwegian has received the title Records from a basement depth (former basement Man). The subtitle is: About populism and the hassle of being human. Jensen highlights important societal issues and challenges in our time. This is about the Danish People's Party and Donald Trump. And the important question is raised: Who are you when the roots are torn up? Jensen is known as a clear social debater, and it always speaks to the weaker party. This summer he had a text printed in Dagbladet entitled "They want to remember us as those who took their hope".

Torild Gjesvik:
Photographer Knud Knudsen. The road, the journey, the landscape
Pax publishers, Norway

Knud Knudsen (1832 – 1915) was one of Norway's photo pioneers. He established himself as a photographer in Bergen in 1864, and was among the first to specialize in landscape photography. A generation before photographer Anders Beer Wilse, he explores the country on a cross. But Knudsen not only took pictures of the landscapes – he was also deeply fascinated by the roads he traveled. His photographic journey is closely interwoven with Norway's modernization. 

Knudsen received several awards for his work. The archive after him counts many thousands of photographs and is included in UNESCO's list of Norway's documentary heritage.

Kaisa Ytterhaug
Kaisa Ytterhaug
Ytterhaug is a freelancer in Ny Tid.

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