Das Gesamtwerk - 2 Bände mit Begleitbuch im Schmuckschuber

Loneliness and disappointment, waiting for death and the search for meaning: Kjell Askildsen's stories are always about existential issues. They come across as quite harmless and almost undercooled, only to end in unexpected abysses. Askildsen's heroes are mostly outsiders, characterized by speechlessness and inner emigration. "No contemporary author," says Jahn Otto Johansen in Aftenposten, "can say so much in so few words. No one gives you so much to think about and ponder. I have to read his stories over and over again. I am never finished with them.".