I bought this book at a sale around 2003, I think. I’ve never read anything else by Gulliksen, but I’d seen his name in the papers, and I liked both the cover and the title (which means something like “Wakes at night and wants something else”), so I snapped it up. I mean, it was like 90% off.
But then I didn’t read it, and:
I bought it again about a decade later! From a different store, and just 75% off this time. And again I didn’t read it… until now.
You can obviously see that Gulliksen has published a lot of poetry — the prose is condensed and precise.
It starts off as a modernist novel, I guess, but it’s kinda sly — Gulliksen was (at this point) the editor in chief at the publishing house that published this book (which may explain why it was on sale on sale for decades, perhaps?), and it’s about an editor at a publishing house that has problems with an author (and stuff). But it gradually becomes clear that the book is something else than it initially seems, and it’s all quite thrilling, really. Yes, it’s postmodern tomfoolery, but it’s genuinely funny and also a bit affecting.
My guess is that it’s not a particularly well-received book, though.
Våkner om natten og vil noe annet (2001) by Geir Gulliksen (3.49 on Goodreads)