RECEPTION OF THE SHORT STORY.
AN ESSAY ON THE MANY LIVES OF "THE NORWEGIAN BIBLE"
I hadnt thought on that Christmas day, when I addressed the envelopes containing "The Norwegian Bible" to my friends, that it was only then that the great play would begin.
The small bilingual book began its own life. It became a mirror for me through which I could get to know my friends. They introduced themselves in the letters, telephone calls and private talks connected with my first "literary effort". Their reactions to my short story began to give birth to a larger story about my friends characteristics, their way of thinking and about the ties that connected them to me.
So here follows the many lives of "The Norwegian Bible":
In the previous semester at the Teachers Training College we had a task of writing a short story in English. I wrote one about my experience while visiting Norway. The short story follows below: