To understand the value of oblivion is as essential as the remembrance itself1. Although the act of forgetting is preconditioned in the human mind, the process expropriates the person’s stories of the places they have been, and the memory gets lost in the whirlwind of the fast-pace contemporary society. The desire for a separate space to relax in, a space to disconnect, has long been used as a concept.
day, encircled by rural environments. However, the continuous growth in
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population and the present-day consumerism has caused an immense demand for
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luxurious second homes, including an increase in their size of 54%2. The cabins have therefore been a fundamental part of the modernisation of Norway, but some are
Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature, argues that approximately half of the Norwegian population owns a cabin or uses one on a periodic basis4.
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country’s quantity of second homes3. Furthermore, Ellen Rees, the author of
AugĂŠ, M. Oblivion. 2004, 3. Statistics Norway. 2019 3 Holm, E. D. Fra hytte til hjem. 2007. 4 Rees, E. Cabins in Modern Norwegian Litterature. 2014, 1.
doomed to be left behind. Erling Dokk Holm stated that there are no akin to the
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For instance, the Norwegian cabin is often defined as the antithesis of the every-
