Modellen: Roman

by Lars Saabye Christensen

Maleren Peter Wihl fyller snart femti år, og skal åpne en ny, stor utstilling. Galleristen Ben advarer ham: For å si det rett ut, så har du ikke råd til å gjenta deg selv mer. Onde tunger sier at hvis du skal male flere legemsdeler nå, må du snart begynne på innvollene. Peter bor sammen med kona Helene, som er scenograf og arbeider med en oppsetning av Vildanden, og datteren Kaia på seks. Mens han sliter med maleriene til utstillingen, kjenner han at han begynner å miste synet. Peter inngår en pakt med djevelen, i skikkelse av en gammel klassekamerat. Romanen stiller spørsmålet: Hvor langt er Peter villig til å gå for å få laget sin kunst? Og hva er viktigst, kunst eller mennesker? Modellen er en glitrende, nådeløs skildring av en kunstners selvopptatthet og desperasjon - og et viktig skritt videre i Lars Saabye Christensens forfatterskap.

This edition is furnished with three ISBNs. The other two are 8252560830 and 8202249651.

Genres: Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Roman, Literary Fiction

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books.
Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made this one of the greatest commercial successes in Norway, and it was voted the best novel of the last 25 years by Dagbladet's readers in 2006.
In the same year, His Majesty King Lars appointed Lars Saabye Christensen as Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for his distinguished contributions to Norwegian literature.
In 2018, he received Oslo’s highest honor, the St. Hallvard Medal, for his prolific writing career spanning over 40 years, with many of his books set in Oslo, the author’s own city.
His books have been translated into 36 languages.

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