Finn Alnæs

Finn Ildfesten Alnæs ( born January 20, 1932 in Bærum, † November 3, 1991 in Lillehammer ) was a Norwegian writer in the romantic tradition. He refused both realistic as the avant-garde literature. Despite a sensational debut ( with the novel Colossus, 1963) he became increasingly isolated and eventually forgotten.

Life

Alnæs came from educated family: his grandfather Eyvind Alnæs was organist and composer, his father a lawyer. After attending a private school, he went to London to study at times (1951 /52) at the Webber -Douglas School of Music and Performing Arts. With his parents, who both worked during Fascism in the resistance, he had fallen out. Back in Oslo, he was able to keep up with small roles in theater on water only with difficulty; He also worked as a teacher, truck driver, stevedore, and soon journalist. In addition to articles and stories to Alnæs also tried to dramas with him neither Ibsen's illusory yet attracted the fashionable theater of the absurd. In 1968 he married the daughter of a doctor and social worker Kirsten Rohme; marriage should last only until 1977.

Alnæs revered nature - critics complained, he glorify them. As a narrator, he maintained a passionate and exuberant style, while between poetry, viewing and changing polemic ( against contemporary standards). His debut novel Colossus of 1963 - with whom he won a competition - soon blossomed into a "cult book" (until 2001 ) sold in at least 130,000 copies. Hero of the novel is an enthusiastic athlete who ends up as a murderer ( against his will ) and mental break. The fabric was made ​​into a film in 1993 by Poland Witold Leszczynski, but scored only little response. Two German editions of the novel published in 1968 and 1970 under the strange title Red Lantern and white snow.

Alnæs continued to write large-scale novels, besides ecological manifestos. The rebels of 1968 were cursing him reactionary, though he sympathized with them. He retired to a secluded and dilapidated Farm ( Lom - traktene ). With nearly 60 years Alnæs dies in 1991 "sick and forgotten." Alluding to Kjell Askildsen, perhaps one could say, is Norway's Ernst Alnæs Kreuder been.

Awards

• Two nominations for the Nordic Council Literature Prize: 1964 with Colossus, 1969 Gemini
• Critics pinches of 1968 ( Gemini )
• Bokhandlerprisen 1969

Works

• Colossus; Brage Bragessons skrift, novel, 1963, revised 1969.
• Gemini, Roman. In 1968.
• Festningen faller, Roman. In 1971.
• På frihetens pinebenk: en prosess, Roman. In 1972.
• Musica, Roman. In 1978.
• Dynamis, Roman. In 1982.
• Restdjevelens carnival, novel, 1992 ( posthumously ).

• Naturkatedral. En opplevelse i ord og bilder. In 1976.
• Svart eller snø samvern. Dokumentarbok fra en brytningstid. In 1976.

• Red Lantern and white snow. Novel from Norwegian transmitted by Gerhard Matthew, Droemer / Knaur 1968 ( Liezenzausgabe 1970)