Description
A former teacher turned diplomat, Armand V. moves through the formal routines of international service while quietly confronting the private negotiations of identity, ambition, and self-invention. The novel follows his career as a sequence of encounters and decisions, but its real fascination lies in how Armand—like the book itself—constructs a workable version of reality from fragments, contradictions, and carefully managed distance. Dag Solstad’s distinctive, intellectually alert style blurs the line between lived experience and narrative design, using a self-conscious perspective to ask what it means to “choose” a life, a role, or even a story. Themes of agency, authorship, and the uneasy relationship between the ordinary and the meaningful drive this quietly unsettling exploration of how people become who they are.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2018
256 pages
ISBN: 9781784708467
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First Published
1982
Language
nor
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