/lit/ - Literature

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>>11604633
Seconding this. Best in all of Scandinavia even

>>11604603
I liked Hamsun's "Growth of the Soil". Ibsen's "Brand" impressed me as well.

>>11604603
Read Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, it's basically norwegian black metal in play form
>>11604651
>Growth of the Soil
this was comfy as fuck, love the idea of a book about man and nature in unison but sverre lyngstad's translation had heaps of awkward bits in it. Has anyone else found a translation that reads more smoothly?

>>11604662
>Peer Gynt
>Play

>>11604633
based

>>11604603
>fiction
Hunger, pan, growth of the soil by Hamsun
Peer gynt, a dolls house by Ibsen
Kristin Lavransdatter by Undset
Assorted contemporary writers like Dag Solstad, Knausgård, Thure Erik Lund, Tomas Espedal
>poetry
Edda, Andre Bjerke, Tor Ulven, Rudolf Nilsen, Rolf Jacobsen

>>11604603
i love scandinavia

>>11604603
also Pär Lagerkvist, Henning Mankell, Tove Jansson, Arnaldur Indridasson, Jorn Riel, Selma Lagerlöf, Arto Paasilinna

>>11606453
These are Swedish, pls stop

Alfred Hauge and Arne Garborg deserve more love on /lit/

>>11606338
its the best continent

>>11606711
i agree

Jon Fosse. Especially his works of prose. Otherwise I'd recommend their neighbors in east.

>>11605061
well i dunno what this is supposed to mean because peer gynt (as rendered by henrik ibsen) is obviously a play

but who cares about petty semantics anon, what did you think of the play?

these two are considered the last two great Norwegian novelists

Tarjei Vesaas
Kjartan Flogstad

if youre more into pop entertainment lit you could read Knausgård

>>11604603
What is the black metal of literature

>>11609711
varg's blog

>>11604603
Dag Solstad is very comfy. He has the same vibe as Murakami, but there is a clear political/social/philosophical meaning behind all of his work. However, they are comfy whether you understand the deeper meanings or not.

Another comfy authos is Tore Renberg. He has mostly written books for Young Adults, but it is still entertaining none the less.

Knausgård is also an obvious one, but everybody knows about him by now.

Norwegian Wood

>>11604603
How much would it take for a German speaker to be able to read Norwegian?

>>11609765
200 hrs of practice, 600 hrs if you want full C2 level

>>11609765

As a Norwegian, I can read and understand a lot of German without ever having learnt it at all. Not more than understanding a written dialog in German (Usually found in video games and on forums online etc), so I could never read a book in German at the point I am at now. I am assuming that it works the like that the other way too.

You could probably just learn Norwegian casually for a year or two (or perhaps 6 concentrated months) and I suppose you'll be pretty good. We already share the same pronunciation, and a lot of words.

I've always thought about Norwegian as simplified German, but I don't really know how accurate that is. The only thing I know is that loads of Norwegian grammar is really simple compared to German.

>>11609803
Being Swedish I'd say this is pretty accurate. A German friend of mine read Aniara in Swedish, but it took him a month to do so. The structure is the same, but it differs in pronounciation. If you start reading Norwegian you could also read Swedish and Danish.

any1 like stig sætterbakken? read gennem natten and it was pretty good but i read another one about a cop trying to find a missing girl that i didn't care for at all. would recommend gennem natten though, the ending is pretty powerful

>>11609848
I have been thinking about reading him after Knausgård mentioned him in My Struggle. Seems like an interesting guy (r.i.p)

>>11604603
bumpety bump bump

>>11606332
>Edda
>Norwegian
kek next they'll tell you Snorri and Loki are spelled with e's and that Leifur was Norwegian

I was recently considering learning Norwegian because it's such a beautiful country. How retarded am I? Is there any literature that's worth it?

>>11611234
>How retarded am I?
reasonably
>Is there any literature that's worth it?
hardly
if English is your native language Norwegian is really easy though, probably the single easiest language for English speakers

>>11611252
>Norwegian is really easy though, probably the single easiest language for English speakers
Really? Why is that? I would have guessed that Dutch or German are probably the easiest, if only because they are West Germanic like English.

>>11611191
Norwegian colony

>>11611438
>Dutch
fucked up pronunciation
>German
difficult to master the grammer

maybe afrikaans or frisian would be easier, but if you know english and move to norway you should be fluent in like six months

>>11611582
in your dreams Mohammed

>>11611634
>>11611438
i think Frisian is the closest to english which is like Dutch and some German regional dialects iirc

>>11612026
listen to the bit at 0:28 'het is koud' it sounds almost like a scottish person or something saying 'it is cold'

>>11612034
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgiDZvYZyMQ

Knausgaard is good. Erlend Loe is also good. Knut Hamsun is good.

Overall Norwegian lit is across the board pretty /lit/.