Johan Harstad, Åsne Seierstad, Simone Trieder, Bertolt Brecht, Boris Pasternak, Jakov Lind, Carry-Ann Tjong-Ayong

De Noorse schrijver Johan Harstad werd geboren op 10 februari 1979 in Stavanger. Zie ook alle tags voor Johan Harstad op dit blog.

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“It is a Tuesday.There can be no doubt about that.I see it in the light, the traffic outside the windows will continue to stream all day, slowly,disinterestedly, people driving back and forth out of habit rather than necessity.Tuesday.The week’s most superfluous day. A day that almost nobody notices among all the other days. I read somewhere, I don’t remember where, that statistics showed there were 34 perccent fewer appointments made on an average Tuesday than on any other day.Ona worldwide basis.That’s how it is.On the other hand a much greater number of funerals are held on Tuesdays than during the rest of the week.They sort of bunch up, you never get on top of it.
I had a friend. And had this not been so, I would never have ended up with a large sum of money in my inside pocket, and been almost run over, I would never have rescued a person from the sea nor been thrown out of various bars. I would not have come inches from jumping three thousand feet down from a mountain, I would never have tried building a boat,and last, but not least, I might never have disappeared. But I had a friend. Jørn. Jørn played in a band. And I’d said yes. It was some weeks ago now. He’d asked me one evening, as we sat in his apartment in Storhaug. Jørn and Roar were going over with his band, Perkleiva, at the end of July, together with another Norwegian band, the Kulta Beats from Trondheim, they were going to play at some festival over there, on the Faroe Isles, a gig they’d been offered through the Stavanger Council, as far as I understood. Stavanger and Tórshavn were twinned towns,and Stavanger wanted to do its bit for the Faroese National Day, Olsok. Some Danish band, whose name I can never remember, were invited too, as well as all the Faroese artists.That was what I’d been told. More or less. And that I was going with them in the guise of being their soundman.”

 
Johan Harstad (Stavanger, 10 februari 1979)

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