Biografie, Tagebuch, Briefe

A book like a legacy. Tomas Espedal writes in his most intimate book to date about the places he lived, the women he desired, the faces of those he shattered as a young boxer, the books he read, and his love for his dying mother. Espedal explores the boundaries between fictional and autobiographical writing: in each of the self-contained texts "Biography," "Diary," and "Letters," he painfully reveals how he became what he is, until in the end, the writer triumphs over the private individual.