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The narrator in Beate Grimsrud’s new novel is an author. «I am a writer. It isn’t a job. It is my life.»
The story opens with a visit to the theatre, a show with performing acrobats and quick-change artists. This is the beginning of a long night for the author. During the interval, and on the way home, strange things have already started to happen. She encounters a character from one of her own novels, a confused string theorist and researcher in mathematics, who becomes a recurrent figure in the novel with, to put it mildly, his sensational theories on the reality of nature. During the evening she also meets Sisyphus, Raskolnikov from Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and the nameless main character from Hamsun’s Hunger. They all ask questions from their own time and ours and interfere in her life. Beate Grimsrud combines the confusion of the dream with the absurd details of everyday life into a nocturnal adventure that is both a nightmare and a humorous game.