After Sofia
Øystein Lønn
Simen Linde is the man everyone speaks to, even after he was forced to leave his job as chief editor in a large media concern. He has retained the journalist’s eye for detail, for snapshots, he is an eager observer, and he tries to unveil some of the mechanisms in the changes that are taking place in present day Norway. Above all he sees that not everything can be controlled, and that passion – or lack of passion – plays an much more important role in the lives of individuals and in the social machinery than we care to believe.
He could have added that passion is the only antidote to boredom. Less than ten years ago he wrote editorials where passion was the true, but hidden, theme. Nothing made him more disconcerted than lack of passion.
Praise for Simon's Storms (2003):
"The text is moving, as smoothly and elegantly as a jazz improvisation; the narrator, time and place may change in the middle of a sentence."
NRK P2
