In an inner monologue, this self-chosen mute antihero tells of his rebellion against his recently deceased christian parents and The Scripture, which he literally got wrong into his throat in his youth, after using the pages as cigarette paper.
Let it be said right away: I just love the linguistic quirks that occasionally appear in Ulv Ulv Tommy Skoglund's novella. "Filling emptiness with emptiness" benefits no one, but shows precisely the abandonment that characterizes the protagonist.
Silence is gold. It all has a kind of childish defiance to it. As a crossing between Job and Ecclesiastes, he attacks the emptiness and the lack of meaning, and turns almost to a kind of inner flagellantism.
The main character tells and discusses at a furious pace, where there is room for humor, self-humiliation and puns. He alternates between curses and demands to be heard, while at the same time he prefers to avoid being noticed by the outside world.
The content shows kinship to Kjell Askildsen. But this reader also comes to mind of Camus´ The Stranger.
Occasionally his thoughts strike some whimsical cracks.
This novel is full of psychological archetypes.
The ending is challenging open, giving me several paths to choose.
A small book about man's innermost demons.
Ulv Ulv Tommy Skoglund
Ulv Ulv Tommy Skoglund (b. 1982) debuted in 2009 with the prose poem-collection Waking up as Part of Nature: “Impressive. Skoglund stands out strongly with a collection of prose poems that starts where life ends. With each new reading, the admiration for the author's distinctive talent increases, where the crystal clear and the irrational meet in concrete descriptions and paradoxical formulations” (VG, 5/6). In 2014 he debuted as a novelist with Silent Rebellion, the story of a self-chosen mute antihero, for which he was awarded The Municipality Prize and a two-year-stipend from Arts Council Norway. In 2018 the novel was translated into Danish. In June 2022, the second book of the metafictional antinovel-cycle, The Dilogy, was published.
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Other titles
The Night and Day Diary XII, novel 2023
The Night and Day Diary XI, novel 2023
The Night and Day Diary X, novel 2023
The Night and Day Diary IX, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary VIII, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary VII, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary VI, novel 2022
Fragments from an uncompleted work concerning inadequacy, poetry 2022
The Night and Day Diary V, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary IV, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary III, novel 2022
The Dilogy II, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary II, novel 2022
The Night and Day Diary I, novel 2022
The Dilogy I, novel 2020
Silent Rebellion, novel 2014
Waking up as Part of Nature, prose poems 2009
