My Century

Having published many significant novels in the postwar period, he was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The story of each year is told differently, expressed by changes in time, place, narrator and literary style.

Each year is designed to illuminate an event or create an atmosphere, the whole, without consecutive narration, commentary or analysis, to add up to a living portrait.

Instead of an event being presented abstractly and in a familiar form, in connection with “great politics”, it is viewed as through a prism “from below” and “from close up” ... from changing, unexpected viewpoints.

The stories about the first half of the century are also linguistically colourful and multifaceted, allowing history to be re-lived and re-considered.