Lit in Translation

Against Nature

Imot naturen

Tomas Espedal (born 1961)

Translated by James Anderson

English editions

In English

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A middle-aged first-person narrator examines work: in the textile factory where he got a job at sixteen, in love, and in writing, and the labour of living in step with society and nature. But what is natural, and why is he drawn to the impossible, to forbidden love, books, myths and taboos? Reading of Abelard and Heloise and of the young Marguerite Duras and her older Chinese lover, he sees that he is becoming one of those who live against nature.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
163 pages in the original
Genres
Love, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
First published
2011 by Gyldendal
Author's age
50 when first published
ISBN

9788205418271 (original)

9780857422354 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

9781803090535 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)