A Young Man-s Confessions of Love opens with the words «Dear Daddy». The novel is a montage of confessions, YouTube links, short movies, private letters and allegedly authentic quotes from interviews given by Frode Saugstad to newspapers and magazines, and, not least, printouts from a paternity case that, according to the heading dates, has circulated in the Norwegian legal system for 30 years.
Frode Saugestad-s first novel is an aching and honest story about yearning, lost childhood, contaminated love and self-loathing, and about how an apparently successful human being purposely decides to ruin himself through lack of love in orde to arise as a new person.
«Frode Saugestad-s literary debut, A Young Man-s Confessions Concerning Love, [is] the ultimate postmodern novel. [...] A Young Man-s Confessions is a -post-novel-, a novel following the collapse of the novel, and also a novel that demonstrates the collapse. »
Per Buvik, Morgenbladet
« A Young Man-s Confessions Concerning Love has an unpolished and randomly amassed in-your-face quality. »
Olaf Haagensen, Vagant
«There is a tremendous soreness and openness in A Young Man-s Confessions Concerning Love. [-]A Young Man-s Confessions Concerning Love manages to expand the literary limits for self-exposure, whether the content actually adheres to reality or not.»
Bjørn Gabrielsen, Dagens Næringsliv
«Unrestrained, unlimited and highly self-exposing [-] It is disgusting and attractive at the same time, and regardless of any moral or ethical reservations it is also a fascinating literary project.»
Sindre Hovdenakk, VG
«Saugestad has written a dark, violent and exhausting book, but there are also comical elements, especially when he addresses his supposed successfulness [-] Saugestad writes about emotions most of us wouldn-t even dare to mention.»
Stein Roll, Adresseavisen
«As an autobiographical writer he is a genius.»
Kasiami Kolajewska, Utropia
