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The Conqueror.(Brief article)(Book review)
The Conqueror
Jan Kjaerstad, trans, from the Norwegian by Barbara Haveland. Open Letter (Univ. of Neb., dist.), $17.95 (481p) ISBN 978-1-934824-03-0
In Kjaerstad's second installment to the Wergeland trilogy (after The Seducer), loosely connected vignettes about troubled Norwegian television director Jonas Wergeland's life reveal large and often unpleasant truths about him. The action stretches over Wergeland's more than 50-odd years, over many countries and through a wide swath of women and a murder. The novel is presented as the work of an academic turned popular author who has been commissioned to write a Wergeland biography. However, the professor has …
