I'm not sure what you meen. He is not my favorite writer, but Sophies world was a huge hit and has sold in large quantities all over the world. The plot is something like Philip K. Dick or Jorge Luis Borges could have written, where the main person turns out to be fiction herself etc, but he has but a lot of introductory stuff about philosophy into it as well so it is interesting of you want to refresh your memory in that area.
After some part of the problems in Israel this year he wrote a text in a newspaper as a reaction. His prose was not very well chosen and it made a lot of fuss. I agree with some representativ for Amnesty who said that the reaction was sound but the wording was clumsy. You can't use a vague and pompous litterary form in an article in a newspaper discussing this kind of problems without creating lots of misunderstandings. The result was that he was criticied for a lot of opinions he didn't have, like hating jews in general. In the end I guess he found that when the questions are of the type "Have you stopped hitting your wife" you'd better just shut up. This was my version of it, anyway. DagT > Fra: SJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dato: 2006/12/05 Tue AM 09:25:19 CET > Til: PDML <[email protected]> > Emne: OT: Norwegian novelist > > hi, > > someone did mention a little after i joined the list that literary > discussions on the list "once in a while" is ok. so... > > the norwegian novelist Jostein Gaarder was here in india recently and > one of my colleagues had interviewed him. nice interview, reads well > and his take on things happens to go well here...within my memory, he > is one of the first norwegian novelists to be interviewed here. he is > being translated into hindi, *one* of the indian languages, and which > i do not know. i am quite tempted to read him in an english > translation. perhaps (our) jostein, dag, tim (or anybody else) can > throw a little more light on the things he is talking about... > > here is the epaper version of the article (which retains the layout, > fonts and the look and feel of the paper as it is published): > > http://epaper.thehindu.com/pdf/2006/12/03/20061203L_003101005.jpg > > and the plain, html, internet version of the interview: > > http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/12/03/stories/2006120300130300.htm > > regards, subash > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
