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fling the motor of his car. It seems to us, that Vibeke loves her son, however Une irritates her, all his jokes are silly to her. The Writer goes deep into the process of the loss by Norwegians of their national consciousness. She considers that in a free society the person doesn’t need a moral imperative, which is the main line of the Norwegian character con nected with Protestantism (we will remember Brand from Ibsen’s drama). Being divorced, Vibeke does not want to connect herself with some new bonds. A man, attractive as a Viking (it’s some kind of irony), who is pleasant to her, pre fers easy relations, he is lazy, wanders across Norway with the park of enter tainments without any goal. A modem Norwegian woman is educated, emanci pated, free and unfortunately lonely. The Writer creates the Shadow of the hero ine - some kind of hermaphrodite looks like the Death in the films. As the contrast to Vibeke, the author concentrates her attention on the in ner world of Une, who loves mother, wants to defend her from all dangers. He dreams of real home, but will never get it. Two images underline the author’s thought about the man living in the global world. One of them is the car in which the person is fenced off the world and remains lonely. And the other image is connected with the dream of the boy to go by train in a long trip with his mother: “We will admire cities and moun tains, and the seas behind a window, will talk with travelers from different coun tries and never arrive anywhere”. The global world probably exists to unite peo ple and to remind them of eternal value of life - about love. ERLEND LOE Erlend Loe’s best work concerns a critical examination of a new direction taken by the Norwegian society. Loe’s early novels established him as a repre sentative voice of educated person of his generation. He maintained popularity with the novel “Naiv. Super” (1996). Loe is a post-modernist writer, but he nev er leaves the reader any doubt that he is a Norwegian. As he thinks, the proc esses of globalization are fatal for a young generation by loss of identity and human values at all. It is important to the writer to create the Norwegian natural context as ac companiment to the events described. He compares the “Norwegian” and “American” chapters of the novel. The titles of the Norwegians’ are: a Tree, Time, Life, Wood, Animals, a Bird, a Board. The hero remembers a cod, a had dock, an elk, a polar bear. In the “American chapters” the city environment is reflected. The main hero has lost the sense of the life and the interest for it. He is as sured of “senselessness of the existing world”. He left university and apartment, refused the accepted standards and thought of a new system of values. The writ 116