Arbeiderklassen, Édouard Louis og Kjartan Fløgstad. Et kritisk tilbakeblikk på debattene rundt Farvel til Eddy Bellegueule i Frankrike og Norge
Abstract In 2016 the author Kjartan Fløgstad criticized the Norwegian reception to the novel The End of Eddy by the French author Édouard Louis, sparking a debate that would culminate in a stand-off between Louis and Fløgstad in the weekly newspaper Morgenbladet. The debate brought both...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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Scandinavian University Press
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift |
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| Online Access: | https://www.idunn.no/nlvt/2018/02/arbeiderklassen_douard_louis_og_kjartan_floegstad_et_krit |
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In 2016 the author Kjartan Fløgstad criticized the Norwegian
reception to the novel The End of Eddy by the French
author Édouard Louis, sparking a debate that would culminate in
a stand-off between Louis and Fløgstad in the weekly newspaper Morgenbladet.
The debate brought both esthetical and political questions pertaining
to the depiction of the working class to the surface. In this article,
we argue that the politically charged question of choosing either
class solidarity or identity politics over the other lay at the
core of the debate, and we show that Fløgstad’s criticism in many
regards coincided with critical viewpoints raised by French journalists
and academics two years earlier. By comparing the critical French
voices with Fløgstad’s criticism, and by examining not only the
rhetorical and political conflict between the two debaters but also
their meeting points, we cast a new light on both the French pendant
to the Norwegian debate, and on the political dimensions and larger
context of the debate. |
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| ISSN: | 0809-2044 1504-288X |