I have become obsessed with Solvej Balle's story of a woman trapped on a single day. On the Calculation of Volume introduces us to Tara Selter, a woman living the classic Bill Murray Movie "Groundhog ...

Every so often, an author in translation with a hit novel series in their home country or region arrives to the U.S. and becomes a fresh phenomenon in the States. Recent examples include Elena ...

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 ...

Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day. By Hilary Leichter Hilary Leichter is the author of the novels “Temporary” and “Terrace Story.

"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, ...

“On the Calculation of Volume,” an ongoing seven-part novel by the Danish writer Solvej Balle, is the story of a single day in the life of its protagonist, the antiquarian book dealer Tara Selter, ...

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 time itself. Edward Hopper, Seven A.M. Without ...

Some years after his theory of relativity changed our fundamental understanding of the concept of time, Einstein wrote that “there is no audible tick-tock everywhere in the world that can be ...

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We tend to think of repetition, especially with regard to novels and other media, in negative terms. To say a work is formulaic or cliched is to say that it repeats exhausted tropes and plots. But ...

We tend to think of repetition, especially with regard to novels and other media, in negative terms. To say a work is formulaic or cliched is to say that it repeats exhausted tropes and plots. But ...