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Award-Winning Author Releases Third Volume in Seven-Part Novel – And Critics Are Already Calling It 'A Masterpiece'

For the past 30 years, Danish author Solvej Balle has remained hard at work on her sprawling seven-part novel, On the Calculation of Volume. An ambitious, encyclopedic work that spans hundreds of ...
The Clarion-Ledger

Third of seven-part novel questions what we owe each other as humans

"On the Calculation of Volume" is a seven-part Danish novel series now being translated into English. The story follows Tara Selter, a woman who is stuck reliving the same day, November 18th, ...
The Nation

Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time

Solvej Balle’s experiments with the timeline. The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key characteristics—the idea of ...
The New Yorker

Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop

Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T. Selter. It’s a ...
Publishers Weekly

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

Solvej Balle, trans. from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3725-3 Balle (According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind) launches a speculative ...
Harper's Magazine

On the Calculation of Volume

Collages by Catie O’Leary for Harper’s Magazine There is someone in the house. Heard as he moves around the room upstairs. When he gets out of bed or when he… ...