作品情報

恋愛、創作、偶然が連なり、ありふれた生活の奇妙さがふいに姿を現す。

グンヒル・ウーヤウク『Wait, Blink』は、カーリ・ディクソン訳で Farrar, Straus and Giroux から英語刊行されたノルウェー語小説。若い文学学生、映画制作に関わる人物、母になった芸術家などの断片的な日常が、引用や脱線を含む語りによってつながっていく。世界の奇妙さを笑いながら見つめ、所属や愛を求める人々の不器用さを肯定する作品。

書籍情報

出版社

Farrar Straus & Giroux

発売日

2018-06-05

ページ数

277ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.67 x 2.67 x 19.58 cm

ISBN-13

9780374285890

ISBN-10

0374285896

価格

6704 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author

"Expansive, intimate, and filled to the brim with delight, Gunnhild Oyehaug's first novel is devoted to the unexpected connections between lonesome individuals, mundane rituals, jellyfish, death, oversized men's shirts, and a thousand other things too astonishing to spoil in this sentence. I truly loved this wide-eyed, all-embracing wonder of a book." —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her voice as a writer when she falls in love with an older, established author, whose lifestyle soon overwhelms her values and once-clear vision. Trine has reluctantly become a mother and struggles to create as a performance artist. The aspiring movie director Linnea scouts locations in Copenhagen for a film she will never make. As these characters’ stories collide and intersect, they find that dealing with the pressures of their lives also means coming to grips with a world both frightening and joyously ridiculous. Wait, Blink combines wild associations, quotations, coincidences, and other peculiar details into a unique tale that is both humorous and profound. Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection Knots , Gunnhild Øyehaug’s Wait, Blink —her first novel to be translated into English—is a jolt of desire and fantasy, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the weirdness inside us all.

Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her story collection Knots was published by FSG in 2017, and Wait, Blink has been made into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts. She has also worked as a coeditor of the literary journals Vagant and Kraftsentrum . Øyehaug lives in Bergen, where she teaches creative writing. Kari Dickson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and grew up bilingual. She has a BA in Scandinavian studies and an MA in translation. Before becoming a translator, she worked in theater in London and Oslo. She teaches in the Scandinavian department at the University of Edinburgh.

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