In the Stories of Kjell Askildsen, Stasis and Revelation Intertwine
In the Stories of Kjell Askildsen, Stasis and Revelation Intertwine Archipelago, 2021 The narratives of "Everything Like Before," only the second book by the Norwegian writer to be published in the US, bend toward the seemingly mundane, then sting with an act that might (or might not) change everything. Kjell Askildsen, winner of the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize in 2009, is a consummate chronicler of contradictory, quicksilver emotions and impulses. There is in his work a careful calibration of his characters' inner lives, of small dramas in no way empty of incident, whose ultimate crux i...
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