Resumo de Doppler - Erlend Loe

'Doppler' is a contemporary novel that deals with the separation between on the one hand an everyday filled with duties and on the other hand one's own needs. The protagonist is a typical modern man - a person who lives to earn money and socialise with other 'clever' people. Suddenly he finds himself in an odd situation: he begins to despise 'cleverness', because he becomes convinced that he is living an artificial life where people collect possessions and friends, but forget the real person inside them. Doppler tries to fight against this, and finds himself in a world of possessions.The novel is built up as a sort of calendar, diary, or 'monthbook' written by Andreas Doppler. It begins in November and end in May, on the Norwegian national day. After the disappearance of Doppler's father he decides to leave his house in Sogn and move to the woods, where he lives in a tent and has only one goal - to do nothing. The first scene in the book describes Doppler's hunt for an elk. He kills it to get food, but the elk wasn't alone - the calf joins Doppler after its mother's death, and even sleeps with him in the tent. Since he only has meat, he steals food form a nearby house where a quite bizarre man named Dusseldorf lives. His cellar isn't guarded, so Doppler becomes fairly at home in the house, and finds out, for example, that Dusseldorf builds models from the war.Doppler is a person who cannot live without milk. He makes a deal with the manager of the supermarket at Ullevål Stadium where he exchanges meat for skimmed milk.He coincidentally meets his wife 'down there', and she inform him that she is pregnant. Doppler's only thought is that he wishes to have a smaller sex organ - it is a kind of family characteristic. He relates how his wife came to the tent a couple of times just to have sex. He looks down on her because she is always concerned by what people will think, and is surrounded by their friends who he doesn't consider real friends. He remembers his father who was always lonely even though he lived with his wife - Doppler believes that people do not as a rule live together, only alongside one another. He also describes his children, Gregus and Nora. His son is lost to the television. He watches the Teletubbies ('semi-cuddly figures') who make Doppler sick. His sixteen-year old daughter has seen 'The Lord of the Rings' eleven times, which Doppler is incapable of understanding. Both are cynical and lack compassion for each other; they don't like each other. The elk becomes Doppler's best friend, and he gives him the name 'Bongo'. He also gets to know Dusseldorf after being caught red-handed. The German man tells him about his life, and the models he is building, which illustrate the Ardennes offensive of December 1944, where his father fell in battle. Once Doppler's wife asked him to look after the children while she was away, and he had to go to a meeting at Nora's school. The parents were discussing the problem of alcohol for a schooltrip the children were going on. Doppler suggests that the pupils should be able to drink a little, but he is misunderstood. When he is home at night a thief comes to the house. Doppler makes the acquaintance of the thief and gives him the DVD player with the films and the Hi-Fi system. In the morning he tries to explain to his son who is crying over the loss that the television isn't that important, and that he should live in reality, in the present. He returns to the woods and is bullied by a rightwinger who will eventually begin to imitate Doppler's life. Towards the end of December Doppler decides to carve a totem pole to honour his father. Gregus visits his father and Doppler begins to see hope for his son. They talk and spend a lot of time together. The rightwinger organises a festival and when people begin to arrive in the woods Doppler feels he must leave. He says goodbye to the rightwinger, the thief and Dusseldorf. Unexpectedly his in-laws arrive and tal, where his wife is with his newborn son. He looks at the child, and after a while says goodbye to his wife, daughter and in-laws, and together with Gregus sets off eastward - to other woods.

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