In its apocalyptic view of mankind and in its haunting, devastating portrayal of justice, Moment of Freedom reminds one of Revelation and Kafka's The Trial. Living high in the Alps in a German principality called Heiligenberg, our narrator tells us he's dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of Justice and acting as a daily witness to injustice masquerading as a court of law. One day in the courtroom he notices that the judge is much too engrossed in looking at something concealed in his folder to pay attention ...
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In its apocalyptic view of mankind and in its haunting, devastating portrayal of justice, Moment of Freedom reminds one of Revelation and Kafka's The Trial. Living high in the Alps in a German principality called Heiligenberg, our narrator tells us he's dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of Justice and acting as a daily witness to injustice masquerading as a court of law. One day in the courtroom he notices that the judge is much too engrossed in looking at something concealed in his folder to pay attention to the proceedings. The something turns out to be some pornographic photographs showing various other pillars of the town engaged in a variety of sexual activities with minors. The incident propels him on a mental journey back through his life: dreams and hallucinations, black-humor fantasies and suicidal drinking binges; the Roman catacombs, warm summer nights in Brooklyn; brothels in Stockholm, his childhood in Norway, and wanderings in Germany But aside from court records he has been keeping his own long and detailed account of man's cruelty to man in a massive twelve-volume study he calls his History of Bestiality. Acknowledging his Germanic past, the narrator realizes that all his attempts to perceive order in life lead only to his acceptance of the chaos of life. With echoes of Nietzsche and Sartre, we see him striving to live uncoerced by power, unpersuaded by friends, to take for himself the liberty of stating his critique in order to live in his own moment of truth, to stand far out at the edge of the abyss.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 217 pages, black boards. A very good, clean neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear but a slight cant to the spine; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with slight foxing to the fore-edges. in a very good generally clean dust jacket, slightly yellowed on the black reverse, and clipped, but with original price present.
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New York. 1975. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0393087190. Translated by Esther Greenleaf Murer. 217 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Norway Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Jens Bjørneboe is the pre-eminent Norwegian novelist of our time, and this novel is a devastating revelation of the German character. The narrator, a court clerk in an alpine valley, sets out to write down the story of his life-his perception of truth. With the vision of a painter, he describes bestialities and beauties, the world full of stars and excrement, of freedom and what it is and of unfreedom and why it is. And he describes, too, the German cross to which he is nailed. He recognizes his love for things Germanic, despite his perception of the German character. Slowly he realizes that all his attempts to perceive order in life lead only to his acceptance of the chaos of life. Thus, the narrator arrives at his moment of truth, his realization of what constitutes life and death for him and the struggle between the two. He knows at last what he must accept from his past to free his present; to live uncoerced by power, unpersuaded by friends; to take for himself the liberty of stating his critique in order to live in his own moment of truth. The power of this novel derives from superb writing, narrative drive, philosophic insights, humor, sensuality, and an apocalyptic view of mankind. It may be that rare event-a work of literature. inventory #44984.
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