”Not only is Holtet Larsen an author with a sure touch for style; he is also consistent … Home is Where You Die, Says Mr. Saunders is an intelligent and irreproachably well-written book. With its rather limited plot and its wordy reflections, it demands a reader who is patient and in the mood. At his best, Holtet Larsen tells playful stories that inspire each other.”
Dagbladet
”The novel emerges as a consistent project, which blends fiction and fact in interesting ways”
Morgenbladet
”Pure-blooded vanishing act … The novel itself is a refined purebred. It is comfortable to start reading Terje Holtet Larsen’s new novel. The precise sentences and the good flow provide immediate calm: you are in safe hands. Norwegian novels that so convincingly create a universe that breaks with quite a few basic principles of realism in time and space, without the seams being troublesome at all, are few and far between … a text of high quality.”
Dagens Næringsliv
”Terje Holtet Larsen writes interestingly about losing sense of reality … a serious and fundamentally sincere project. This can moreover be connected to Holtet Larsen’s style of writing, a style that during the authorship has become increasingly unadulterated, and consequently increasingly recognisable. I’m referring to the smooth, fine-polished formulations, the determined search for the perfect sentence structure, the strive for complete balance, a sort of neutrality, possibly, in the tone, in the well founded – and well prepared – leaps of thought and the gliding, as good as unnoticeable transitions between different passages.”
Klassekampen
”Holtet Larsen makes use of himself for all it’s worth. He blends into world literature and history of philosophy and moves us around in a Minotaurian maze. He gives us this Ariadne’s ball of thread ingrained with literature and knowledge so we can find a way – not out, but through realisations, literary experiences and an absurdist humour. This is great literature in Norwegian and an homage to Borges and his literary unreality.”
Bergens Tidende
”[the novel] shows Holtet Larsen’s stylistic elegance, his irony and his sharp ability to observe … With this novel, Terje Holtet Larsen proves that he is an original and brave voice in Norwegian literature … an author with exceptional ability to write”
Dagsavisen
”Terje Holtet Larsen is an excellent cicerone through a cultural landscape he knows like the back of his hand. He is learned, but never condescending, and when he is himself completely, he is an intelligent aesthete, with many interesting things to say and an excellent way of doing it … A good book, with many interesting sequences, at times an elegant and precise language, and the mixture of genres constitutes an interesting whole”
Dag og tid
”Autobiographic, essayistic novel about loneliness, about desperate exile, in tension between fiction and fact, an outer and an inner world … This is a linguistically well formed novel … catches your attention and forces the reader to join in a wonderment about life … One could easily claim that his literary project of ruin has been completed.”
Aftenposten
