Profil (literary magazine)
Profil was a Norwegian
Modernism
Among the contributors to the magazine were
Political period
Between 1959 and 1966 Profil was a student magazine.[4] In 1966 the magazine's editorial board was taken over by a literary group who named themselves as a new generation of modernists.[5]
From 1968 and onwards several of the Profil writers became politically left wing activists, and started writing political poems, songs and novels. Examples of so-called working class literature are Obrestad's poetry collection Vårt daglege brød (1968), Haavardsholm's novel Zink (1971), Solstad's novel Arild Asnes 1970 (1971) and Obrestad's novel Sauda! Streik! (1972).[2] Liv Køltzow's novel Hvem bestemmer over Bjørg og Unni? (1972) is regarded as Norway's first example of militant and socialist feminism.[2]
Profil became a forum for
Song books
The Profil songbooks were eight books issued 1972–1975, subtitled Songar frå folkets kamp.[2]
Post-modernism
The magazine disappeared in 1981.[4] It was relaunched in 1984 as a general cultural magazine and was closed in 1989.[1][4] Some of the most profiled political writers from the 1970s later concluded that the working class literature experiment was a failure.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Profil". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian).[permanent dead link]
- ^ ISBN 82-03-16004-2.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-6501-3. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-31050-6. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-567-38757-8. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
