How did Dag Solstad later reflect on the radical politics of the 1960s and 1970s?

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In the context of Norwegian literature, Dag Solstad was a prominent member of the Profil group, a generation of radical writers in the late 1960s and 1970s who advocated for politically engaged, socially revolutionary literature rooted in Maoist interpretations of Marxism-Leninism.1

While his early works, such as Arild Asnes, 1970 (1971), explored the necessity of political revolution, his later writing reflected a shift in tone. In his 1987 novel Roman 1987 (Novel 1987), Solstad provided an accounting of that earlier radical era, moving away from the explicitly revolutionary focus of his previous work to examine the period in retrospect.21