En Ung Manns Bekjennelser Om Kjærlighet Av Frode Saugestad

<p><i>A Young Man¿s Confessions of Love</i> opens with the words «Dear Daddy». The novel is a montage of confessions, YouTube links, short movies, private letters and allegedly authentic quotes from interviews given by Frode Saugstad to newspapers and magazines, and, not least, printouts from a paternity case that, according to the heading dates, has circulated in the Norwegian legal system for 30 years.</p><p>Frode Saugestad¿s first novel is an aching and honest story about yearning, lost childhood, contaminated love and self-loathing, and about how an apparently successful human being purposely decides to ruin himself through lack of love in orde to arise as a new person.</p><p><br/>«Frode Saugestad¿s literary debut, <i>A Young Man¿s Confessions Concerning Love</i>, [is] the ultimate postmodern novel. [...] <i>A Young Man¿s Confessions </i>is a ¿post-novel¿, a novel following the collapse of the novel, and also a novel that demonstrates the collapse. »<br>Per Buvik, Morgenbladet</p><p><br/>«<i> A Young Man¿s Confessions Concerning Love </i>has an unpolished and randomly amassed in-your-face quality. »<br>Olaf Haagensen, Vagant</p><p><br/>«There is a tremendous soreness and openness in <i>A Young Man¿s Confessions Concerning Love</i>. [¿]<i>A Young Man¿s Confessions Concerning Love </i>manages to expand the literary limits for self-exposure, whether the content actually adheres to reality or not.»<br>Bjørn Gabrielsen, Dagens Næringsliv</p><p><br/>«Unrestrained, unlimited and highly self-exposing [¿] It is disgusting and attractive at the same time, and regardless of any moral or ethical reservations it is also a fascinating literary project.»<br>Sindre Hovdenakk, VG</p><p><br/>«Saugestad has written a dark, violent and exhausting book, but there are also comical elements, especially when he addresses his supposed successfulness [¿] Saugestad writes about emotions most of us wouldn¿t even dare to mention.»<br>Stein Roll, Adresseavisen</p><p><br/>«As an autobiographical writer he is a genius.»<br>Kasiami Kolajewska, Utropia</p>