Bleeding in the Dishes
Joanna Biggs: Solvej Balle’s Time Loop, 19 March 2026
On the Calculation of Volume: Book I
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
Faber, 179 pp., £12.99, April 2025,978 0 571 38337 5 Show More
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
Faber, 179 pp., £12.99, April 2025,
On the Calculation of Volume: Book II
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
Faber, 204 pp., £12.99, April 2025,978 0 571 38340 5 Show More
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
Faber, 204 pp., £12.99, April 2025,
On the Calculation of Volume: Book III
by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Faber, 194 pp., £12.99, November 2025,978 0 571 38342 9 Show More
by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Faber, 194 pp., £12.99, November 2025,
On the Calculation of Volume: Book IV
by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Faber, 198 pp., £12.99, April,978 0 571 39703 7 Show More
by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Faber, 198 pp., £12.99, April,
“... possible. Time could loop. What would that be like? Until the publication of the first book in Solvej Balle’s planned septology, On the Calculation of Volume, the serious philosophical novel of time, in the mould of Proust and Joyce, had distanced itself from the time-loop story told to children and sold to moviegoers. ... ”
