Author:
Thea Selliaas
Thorsen
Release year:
2011208 pages
1. edition
Norwegian
ISBN/EAN: 9788205409613
Do Not Come Without Desire
Thea Selliaas Thorsen
Fifty short essays about more than fifty authors and about literature from a period of almost five thousand years.
The range is unique, from Babylonian literary wisdom through the ancient classics to European masterpieces, nursery rhymes and Norwegian contemporary literature.
Thea Selliaas Thorsen is known, among other things, for her column in Morgenbladet and for her translations of ancient love poetry. In this book she gives a personal and passionate testimony about literature she loves. Do Not Come Without Desire is an invitation to partake in what’s good about literature, it’s surprises, because it tells you that you are alive, because it is alive – even though it should by all appearences be dead as clay, papyrus and parchment, as ink, paper and electronic reader screens.
