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En Dag I Oktober
''En dag i oktober'' (eng: ''One day in October'') is a novel by Norwegian writer Sigurd Hoel, published in 1931. The novel takes place in one day, 10 October, in an apartment building on St. Hanshaugen in Oslo. The novel describes the life of the inhabitants. It is, according to the Norwegian literary historian Philip Houm''Norges litteratur fra 1914 til 1950-årene''. inspired by the American writer Elmer Rice's ''Street Scene'' in the use of time and place unit. Houm writes that "form suited to the task Hoel had undertaken. Making a quick and satirical cut through the contemporary bourgeois life, especially married life." The frame in form of time and place is only broken by one of the pairs, and these become a sort of main characters. Already in the introductory chapter the young divorced Tordis Ravn is presented, she rents a room in the house. Her neighbours judge her for what seems, in their eyes, to be an immoral life and this make them furious. Tordis Ravns nervous bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurd Hoel
Sigurd Hoel (December 14, 1890 – October 14, 1960) was a Norwegian author and publishing consultant, born in Nord-Odal. He debuted with the collection of short stories (The Way We Go) in 1922. His breakthrough came with (Sinners in Summertime, 1927), which was made into a film in 1932 and in 2002. Life Hoel was born in Nord-Odal, Norway, in 1890. He was the son of teacher Lars Anton and Elisa Dorothea Hoel and grew up in Odalen. He was admitted into Ragna Nielsen's school in Kristiania (now Oslo), but when he finished school in 1909, he could not afford to begin college right away. He worked for a while as an insurance salesman before he could begin his studies in 1910, during which time he supported himself with teaching jobs. In 1913 he was an employee at . In his time at college he was the editor of the periodical ''Minerva''. His literary career began with the short story "" ('The Idiot') from 1918, when he won a writing contest. The same year he became an employee o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of in 2019, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality (''formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. The city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Houm
Philip Rode Houm (20 April 1911 – 22 April 1990) was a Norwegian literary critic. Biography He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He graduated with a master's degree in literature from the Royal Frederick University in 1938, Houm was a co-editor in the journal ''Kølen'' 1942-45. He worked as literary critic for the newspaper ''Dagbladet'' from 1945. He was a board member of Nationaltheatret from 1963, a member of Norwegian Language Committee (''Norsk språknemnd'') from 1966 to 1972, and of the Norwegian Language Council from 1972 to 1976. In 1947, he was commissioned by Aschehoug to write a closing volume to their series on Norwegian literature history ''Norges litteratur fra 1914 til 1950-årene''was published in 1955. Among his other books were ''Ask Burlefot og vi'' (1957) and ''Kritikere i en gullalder'' (1982). Houm died in Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays ''The Adding Machine'' (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, ''Street Scene'' (1929). Biography Early years Rice was born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein at 127 East 90th Street in New York City. His grandfather was a political activist in the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. After the failure of that political upheaval, he emigrated to the United States where he became a businessman. He spent most of his retirement years living with the Rice family and developed a close relationship with his grandson Elmer, who became a politically motivated writer and shared his grandfather's liberal and pacifist politics. A staunch atheist, his grandfather may also have influenced Elmer in his feelings about religion as he refused to attend Hebrew school or to have a bar mitzvah. In contrast, Rice's relationship with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
