06'02'06, Valler vgs BOOKPROJECT Naiv' Super Volvo Lastvagnar By Erlend Loe

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06.02.06, Valler vgsBOOKPROJECTNaiv.
SuperVolvo LastvagnarBy Erlend Loe
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Members of the group

• Nina Orucevic
• Magnus U. Due
• Tobias Rengård
• Katinka Norderud

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About the project

• During a period of a couple of weeks, we have
  been working on our book project. We were
  supposed to read books and make a presentation
  out of it. Our group on four have split in two,
  and we have read the two books Naiv. Super and
  Volvo Lastvagnar. We choose these two books,
  because they was written by the same author and
  deals with the same issues and the same absurd
  world. We are going to talk about the two books,
  explain the main plot, and then compare them. We
  hope to give you a insight in Norwegian reading
  culture and our society and specially in these
  two books, society problems.

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Erlend Loe

• Erlend Loe was raised in Trondheim, the same
  place he was born in 1969. He is was trained in
  Cand.Mag. With a basic course in
  peoples-mind-science. Later he was also trained
  in writing movie scripts at the Danish School of
  Movies in Copenhagen.
• Loe never decided to be a writer, even if he knew
  that was what he really wanted. He has now become
  a great writer and he has won a lot of diffent
  prizes. He has gotten really great critics all
  over the papers, and I think he is the writer
  most youths have heard of in Norway right now.
• Loe had his debut in 1993 with his novel Tatt av
  kvinnen, - Taken by the woman. But his real
  breakthrough came with his book naivSuper in
  1996. After that he has written a lot of
  childrens books, novels and even movie scripts.
  Among his movie scripts there is one that stood
  out Detector, it became an immediate blockbuster
  when it got to the movies in 2000.

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Here is a list of all the books Erlend Loe has
written

• 2000 Jotunheimen, bill.mrk. 2469, m. fotografier
  av Bård Løken (Jotunheimen)
• 2000 Mustafas kiosk
• 1999 L
• 1998 Sa terapeuten min (Said my therapist)
• 1997 Sa Mor (Said Mum)
• 1996 Naiv.Super.
• 1996 Den store røde hunden (The Big Red Dog)
• 1995 Kurt blir grusom (Kurt Becomes Gruesome)
• 1994 Fisken (The Fish)
• 1994 Maria José
• 1993 Tatt av kvinnen (Taken by the woman)

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Naiv. Super

• The book is about a young student who suddently
  falls into the middle of an existentional crises
  after a defeat in crocket against his brother. He
  breaks out of his regular life, skip his
  education and borrows his brothers apartment.
  There he spend his time playing and reflect over
  things he like and dislike. The scenario is
  described with ironi and naivity, with a longing
  for his lost childhood.

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Volvo Lastvagnar

• In this novel we meet Andreas Doppler with his
  small company on the walk through the woods. The
  little company consisting of Doppler, his son
  Gregus and the elk calf Bongo ask for shelter by
  an old hag called Maj-Britt. There is a lot of
  strange things going on at Maj-Britts place, and
  Doppler keeps finding new aspects of himself all
  the time. Here you get to know (among other
  things) why the book is called Volvo
  Lastvagnar, and what it is. After a couple of
  days, Doppler gets in contact with Maj-Britts
  nabour and bitter enemy von Borring. Von Borring
  is just as old as Maj-britt. Hes got a passion
  for birds and sleeps outside the hole year. In
  this place Doppler is getting reborn as a better
  and healthier person.
• In this fabulous and absurd novel, Erlend Loe
  shows his incredible talent as a writer, and
  brings up a lot of serious society issues. The
  main message in the novel is (by our opinion) a
  criticism to todays materialism.

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Erlend Loes view

• Erlend Loes view on human beings, feelings and
  how todays community has developed is presented
  to us within the two books Naiv. Super and
  Volvo Lastvagnar.
• We get close up to the main characters and their
  way of living and thinking. Behind it all we
  learn about separate peoples loneliness and their
  way of handling it.
• The books tell us a lot about Erlend Loe, and his
  personal view. We learn about his critics to
  todays society and the way it has developed.
• Material is in focus and no one cares about human
  values. Erlend Loe tries to present these society
  problems and how they result in loneliness and
  confusion.

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Equalities between the books

• The equalities between the two books are several.
  
• Not only thinking about Loes way of writing, but
  also the themes, the characters and the humour he
  is using. Exactly these factors are the one that
  makes the books stand out from the regular
  meaning of life genre.
• Agents like repeating and using a simple language
  are being used. It might, sometimes, be a bit
  much, but at the same time it underlines the
  character and the way the person feels and acts.
  It points out the important themes we all handle
  in different ways deep inside.
• The main characters are living descriptions when
  it comes to deep emotional feelings like
  loneliness, love, the pressure to succeed and
  meaning about life. The characters are proves to
  these community questions and since everything
  are presented so simple and ordinary, in an
  absurd way, we recognise ourselves in it.
• Everything is simple, childish and many things
  have no point at all, just like us. We meet
  taught and we get to know a strong confusion.
• The new type of living, the material lifestyle
  and its troubles.
• The norwegian community are being present to us
  in a new angle. Absurd views, livestyles and
  taughts underlines the point.

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Movie from the book NaivSuper
This is a scene were the main character is
thinking about life. While doing this he trows a
ball at the wall, because it is relaxing.
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Movie from the book Volvo lastvagnar.
This is a scene where our main character,
Doppler, takes a walk with his moose.