Avoid the Void: A Struggle for Decency: A Journey from a Soviet Asylum to Paradise Forgotten

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Gunnar Gjengset

Avoid the Void

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A Struggle for Decency: A Journey from a Soviet Asylum to Paradise Forgotten

Gunnar Gjengset

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Morgan James Publishing llc
01 March 2013

Biography: historical, political & military; European history; Coping with drug & alcohol abuse

""""George wanted me to play the spy game. No dramatic cases, just find out if I was followed on the street, how the mailboxes functioned, checking the monitoring of rooms etc., and for me it was just a bit too much The Hardy Boys. And I had not even read them.""""

In 1970 a young Norwegian student entered the Soviet Union to take action against violations of human rights. He was arrested and sentenced to one year in a labour camp. Here is the story of what he experienced, on the internal and external level, behind the Iron Curtain.

Gunnar Gjengset is both a merited and scandalized scholar, a highly respected and satirical aphoristic with his own column in leading Norwegian newspapers for more than 20 years. Although his life story is thrilling, there is also ample room for humor and caustic descriptions of life in Academia, High Culture - and the gutter.

After having been challenged by a possible ADD-diagnosis, Gunnar Gjengset understood that he had to take control over an escalating abuse of alcohol, before alcohol took control over his life. Quitting is easy, the quest is to cope with the void that threatens the mind as a black hole. He therefore developed a list for surviving, a day-to-day schedule for how to challenge the boozing.

First you have to admit that there is a problem, and then you have to invest one year of your lifetime.

But with a little help from your own will:

Here is the manual for how to Avoid the Void.

By: Gunnar Gjengset
Imprint: Morgan James Publishing llc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781614483847
ISBN 10: 1614483841
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 01 March 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Introduction To Avoid The Void Just Quit The Art of Not to Start Asylum, Addiction and the Road to Avoid The Void PART ONE: BACK IN THE USSR Introduction: An Ex–Alcoholic in the Ex–USSR 1. A Day in the Life of Gunnar Gjengsetovitsch 2. Mother Russia 3. Riding the Rap 4. A Spy in the Making 5. The Brave Tin Soldier 6. The Mysteroius Resistance 7. Back in the USSR 8. Breakfast of Champions 9. ...Then Everything Went Horribly Wrong 10. Last Man Standing 11. Show Time! 12. Peace and Friendship 13. Welcome to the Criminal Asylum 14. Hunger Strike – a Matter of Will 15. Emil und die Detektive 16. Will and Its Boundaries 17. The Process PART TWO: A DAY IN THE LIFE 1. Leaving Las Vegas 2. How Not to Drink 3. The First Circle: The Drunkard’s Messy Routines 4. How to Quit Quitting 5. The Art of Not to Start 6. ...At the End of the Day PART THREE: NORWEGIAN WOOD – AVOID THE VOID 1. The Temperance Seven 2. To Avoid The Void – The Manual Here is My Manual: 3.Face The Void 4. Red Sails in the Sunset BONUS 1. Medical Treatment 2. Why WILL Would Work 3. Summary APPENDIX – LITERATURE

Gunnar Hauk Gjengset is a Norwegian researcher and author, who received worldwide attention when, in January 1970, he was arrested in the Soviet Union while demonstrating against the Breznjev regime. Gjengset was sentenced to one year in a criminal camp, but was released after international pressure for his detention in a criminal asylum. Gjengset is a Doctor of Philosophy in Literature from the University of Umea, and has been a researcher on both children's upbringing, and on the medias. He has written several books, including a biography of Gustav Vigeland, the world famous Norwegian sculptor. He also writes his own daily column of aphorisms in one of the major Norwegian newspapers.