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Stille Dage I Mixing Part (2009)

by Erlend Loe(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8702084848 (ISBN13: 9788702084849)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Gyldendal

review 1: well I was going to give this 'novel' 2 stars or even one, because it is on the surface a slight book, even a silly one: the protagonist is a Norwegian theatre man on holiday with his wife in Bavaria ('the cradle of Nazism', as the unimpressed hero says to his over-impressed wife), who has an obsession with Nigella Lawson, and in his constant fantasising about her neglects his wife and child to the extent they split. However it's funny. I started to - if not exactly lol - giggle at his stupidity and blindness but grow quite fond of him, and his long suffering wife. This was written in 2009, and in it he suggests that Charles Saatchi might be violent towards Nigella, and that she is calling out for rescue in her TV programmes and books, what (unintended?) foresight!So, it's... more childish, light but fun. You could read in under two hours.
review 2: i really did not like this book. i'm not sure whether erlend loe intends telemann (the protagonist) to seem horrible or whether telemann is supposed to encourage empathy/pity via his 'humorous' existential crisis. the existential crisis mainly involves making boring and (i feel) insensitive jokes about nazism whilst on holiday in germany and fantasising about nigella. i'm sorry to seem square but i felt like it was disrespectful and sexist towards nigella (and telemann's fictional wife) so i did not find it very funny less

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