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Morten Høi Jensen

Stig Sæterbakken's <i>Through the Night</i>

Stig Sæterbakken's Through the Night

Review by Morten Høi Jensen

Stig Sæterbakken’s characters often rail against their confinement within themselves, entertaining thoughts of birth, death and rebirth, before they come bouncing off the walls to find that there is no escape, no respite from themselves. In Through the Night, his final and most ambitious novel, Sæterbakken dramatizes this struggle with far greater poignancy than ever before . . .

Javier Marías's <i>The Infatuations</i>

Javier Marías's The Infatuations

Review by Morten Høi Jensen

As a character in Javier Marías's The Infatuations likes to remind us, it is not the plot of a novel that is important—what happens is so easily forgotten—but rather the “possibilities and ideas that the novel’s imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with”...