“A good, captivating novel about silence, inner and outer reality and the meaning of life … There are several stories and interconnected motifs here; stories within the story, anecdotes, obsessions, curios, and whims that taken together form an alluring whole. … The author writes well, gets the reader thinking and seasons the story with wisdom, wonder and entertaining aphorisms. And all these pieces, anecdotes and fragments are put together to form a thought-provoking whole that raises fundemental questions of a philosophical, epistemological and metaphysical nature.”
5/6 stars, Sigmund Jensen, Stavanger Aftenblad

“New elements are constantly added, and small, but good stories, for example about Bach and Frederick the Great of Prussia, and Torgersen weaves it all together into a whole that among other things deals with the contrast between outer and inner life, where the reader catches himself thinking that even though the outer life comprises all the inner lives, the outer is also contained, and disappears, in the inner life, or as Hamlet puts it: ‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space’ … A work that after destroying everything else doesn’t end up destroying itself, has annoyed us in vain. Be Quiet, however, isn’t annoying in the least, it’s a novel which both deals with and provokes reflection.”
Odd W. Surén, Dag og Tid

“Still, the book’s greatest quality is how it jumps between the ephemeral and the earth-bound. About the longing that fluctuates between the two. Torgersen balances between the peculiar and the ‘cultured’, often with an eye to the strange and the comical … the storytelling is absolutely brilliant”
Bård Larsen, Minerva