“Solstad is the one who decides the rhythm in Norwegian literature, and one of these rhythms is called 16.07.41”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
“16.07.41 is Solstad’s most unsual book, seemingly without effort it switchs between different registers … gives us a clearer view of a writer eternally out of step with his times, a great storyteller who even at the peak of his own art remains how own greatest enigma”
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
“This volume might not be the best entry into the literary cosmos of Dag Solstad, but still, 16.07.41 also has qualities that lets us understand why the author is considered on the most important in Norway”
rbb Inforadio, Germany
“A truly beautiful book”
Morgenpost Sachsen, Germany
“The way Solstad again and again approaches his ideas and his awareness of being an artist in his wanderings is not only philosophical and highly sensitive, it’s also surprisingly funny, ironic, ambiguous … For people who know how a sentence such as “The road is the goal” can be more than just something you brainlessly rattle off, this despairing, sensitive, privileged-powerless man is the ultimate philosophical writer”
dawidwonschewski.wordpress.com, Germany
“The second part of the book is a literary gem, in which the protagonist after returning to Norway looks thinks back on his parents’ house in Sandefjord and consequently tries to come to terms with himself and his own writing. This part is captivating in another way than what comes before and is worth a novel in itself.
Nordkurier, Germany
“Those who expect more from a novel than a coherent, plot-driven story, will spend some happy hours with Dag Solstad’s autofictional game – and furthermore get an idea of the tradition that the successful authors Karl Ove Knausgård and Tomas Espedal with their self-exploration belong to.”
SWR2 Lesenswert Magazin, Germany
“It is an awesome story, torn from the repressed, about growing up, about the relationship to a world that doesn’t wish you well, but which still is full of wonders”
MDR Kultur, Germany
“Impressively well-written»
Frankfurter Neue Presse, Germany
“…a find, and a gift of Grace”
Dagbladet
“…a deeply moving book – maybe his best novel”
VG
“A triumph for the art of the novel”
Adresseavisen
“The most ambitous oeuvre in contemporary Norwegian literature”
Dagens Næringsliv
“…overwhelming and intimate …This is one of the most touching and overwhelming books I have read in a very long time, and without doubt this autumn’s best, so far! ”
Dagsavisen
“… Another major Solstad-novel. It will be read and discussed for a long time”
NRK
