Against Nature: The Notebooks | Tomas Espedal
In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences.Against Nature, a companion volume to the already-published Against Art, is an examination of factory work, love's labour and the work of writingworking in order to live in compliance with society and nature. But what is natural? And why is Espedal drawn towards the impossibleimpossible love, books, myths, taboos? He reads the story of Abélard and Héloïse and about young Marguerite Duras and her Chinese lover, and realizes that he too is turning into one of those who live against nature.
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