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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] |
Street Scene (play)
''Street Scene'' is a 1929 American play by Elmer Rice. It opened January 10, 1929, at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City. After a total of 601 performances on Broadway, the production toured the United States and ran for six months in London. The action of the play takes place entirely on the front stoop of a New York City brownstone and in the adjacent street in the early part of the 20th century. It studies the complex daily lives of the people living in the building (and surrounding neighborhood) and the sense of despair that hovers over their interactions. ''Street Scene'' received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. History ''Street Scene'' has its origins in a play that Elmer Rice began in the mid-1920s titled ''Sidewalks of New York''—a play without words that he wrote as a technical exercise for his own entertainment. Rice devised 15 vignettes that were a microcosm of New York life. One of these scenes presented the front of a brownstone in the early morning hours. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egen Ingång
''Egen ingång'' (Separate Entrance) is a 1956 Swedish drama film directed by Hasse Ekman. The film is based on Sigurd Hoel's novel '' En dag i oktober'' (One Day in October). Plot It is a seemingly ordinary day in October. Since she separated from her husband six months ago, Marianne Stenman has lived in a room with a separate entrance on Kavallerigatan 27 in Stockholm. But to Marianne this is not an ordinary day, when we first meet her she has only six hours to live. The film lays the puzzle of Marianne's last hours, piece by piece. Cast *Maj-Britt Nilsson as Marianne Stenman *Alf Kjellin as Arvid Stenman *Hasse Ekman as Sture Falk *Gertrud Fridh as Margit Friberg *Sigge Fürst as Hjalmar Friberg *Bibi Andersson as Karin Johansson *Lars Ekborg as Ekelöf *Gunvor Pontén as Mrs. Falk *Elsa Carlsson as Mrs. Petreus *Holger Löwenadler as Consul Oskar Petreus *Hjördis Petterson as Mrs. Gabrielsson *Marianne Löfgren as Mrs. Johansson *Hugo Björne as Hans Gabrielsson *Elsa Ebbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasse Ekman
Hasse Ekman (born Hans Gösta Ekman; 10September 191515February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Biography Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director from the period after Sjöström and Stiller and prior to Ingmar Bergman, peaking between the mid-1940s and 1950. He was greatly influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films. His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film ''Flicka och hyacinter'' (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment. His 1957 film ''Summer Place Wanted'' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Novels
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Novels Adapted Into Films
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. *Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
