Tor Ulven’s only novel, Replacement, addresses the difficult facts of life, not only that we must all come to an end, but that we must make peace with the time spent while alive. Everyone and everything ‘ will eventually disappear on it’s own, not partially, not selectively, but completely and all inclusively disappear,’ a grim fact that we must all come to terms with.

Tor Ulven’s only novel, Replacement, addresses the difficult facts of life, not only that we ' What you’ve got to understand is that meaning can be found in meaninglessness, and that these meaningless words hold all that you need to know.'Įvery moment, we are moving forward on a collision course with death.

' What you’ve got to understand is that meaning can be found in meaninglessness, and that these meaningless words hold all that you need to know.' Every moment, we are moving forward on a collision course with death. A masterpiece of compression and confession, Replacement dramatizes the tension between the concrete realities we think we cannot alter, and our interior lives, where we feel anything might still be possible.more These people reminisce, dream, reflect, observe, and talk to themselves each stuck in their respective traps, each fantasizing about how their lives might have turned out differently. These people reminisce, dream, reflect, observe, and talk to themselves Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven’s suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of fifteen unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, having reached a point of stasis in their lives, directing the book in turn. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven’s suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of fifteen unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, having reached a point of stasis in their lives, directing the book in turn.

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