Some days ago. At a café.
We sat on tall chairs around a table. He was telling me about translations of Kafka.
‘In the French translations there are several mistakes.’
He said, before mentioning a sentence from ‘The Judgement’:
‘He left. Then he closed the door.’
‘Mhm.’
‘In the original there is only one sentence.’
‘OK.’
‘He left and closed the door’.
Leaving Leaving Behind Behind
Inger Wold Lund
June 2015
Lund makes these small scenes into instant and almost tactile objects.
Stian Gabrielsen
In Leaving Leaving Behind Behind Berlin-based visual artist and writer Inger Wold Lund elevates the daily mundane by committing fleeting moments to memory. A series of short-short stories representing the world as the author knows it, each story, despite its brevity, appears fully-realized, almost as a photograph. Leaving Leaving Behind Behind is Lund’s first collection in English.
About the Author
Inger Wold Lund is a writer based in Berlin. She holds degrees from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts; Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design; and Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule. She is the author of two books in Norwegian, Erotika (Cappelen Damm), Ingenting skjedde (Flamme Forlag), and a chapbook Leaving Leaving Behind Behind (UDP). She has exhibited at the 2018 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the 2017 Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, the Oslo Wildlife Sculpture Park, and M.I/mi1glissé (Berlin). She is a grant recipient from The Norwegian Relief Fund for Visual Artists (BKH).rn
Praise
Reminiscent of a film script. . . Lund makes these small scenes into instant and almost tactile objects, cleared of affective noise.
Stian Gabrielsen
It is impressive to write about nothing, but Wold manages well. Here there are small, quirky or embarrassing episodes from the life of a young woman. No event is too small, it can circle around drinking soda where a mosquito has landed, or where to find a place for the glass at an art opening. The quality lies in the skill of observing the small things, and in the subtle tone. This is feel good short prose, at times with a funny/melancholic edge.
Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK
The Russian formalist Viktor Sjklovskij claimed that it was the task of poetry to tear appart our automatized relationship with the world, through among other things a shift in perspective. 'Ingenting skjedde' makes us not only open our eyes to the nice, strange and comical things that happen in the book, but also in our own lives. Because often it is not that nothing happens, but that we are too busy running in our own footprints to notice it.
Gina Tandberg, bokmerker.org
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Publication Details
Chapbook
Hand-bound. 32 pp, 5.75 x 7.5 in
Publication Date: June 01 2015
Distribution: Direct Only