Scandinavian Noir - Couverture souple

Lesser, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 125079840X ISBN 13 : 9781250798404

Editeur : Picador, 2021

Synopsis

For nearly four decades, Wendy Lesser\x27s primary source of information about three Scandinavian countries \- Sweden, Norway, and Denmark \- was mystery and crime novels, and the murders committed and solved in their pages. Having never visited the region, Lesser constructed a fictional Scandinavia, something between a map, a portrait, and a cultural history of a place that both existed and did not exist. Lesser\x27s Scandinavia was disproportionately populated with police officers but was also filled with the stuff of everyday life, relayed in great detail in the novels she read: a fully realised world complete with its own traditions, customs, and, of course, people. Over the course of many years, Lesser\x27s fictional Scandinavia grew more and more solidly visible to her, especially as it became augmented by Nordic movies and TV shows. Yet she never had a strong desire to visit the real countries that corresponded to the made\-up ones \- until, she writes, \x27between one day and the next, that no longer seemed sufficient.\x27 It was time to travel to Scandinavia. With vivid storytelling and an astonishing command of the literature, Wendy Lesser\x27s Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery illuminates the vast, peculiar world of this imagined Scandinavia \- first as it appears on the page, then as it grows in her mind, and finally as it exists in reality. Shaped by sharp criticism, evocative travel writing, and a whimsical need to discover \x27the difference between existence and imagination, reality and dream,\x27 Scandinavian Noir is a thrilling and inventive literary adventure from a masterful writer and critic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of <i>The Threepenny Review</i> and the author of a novel and several books of nonfiction, including <i>Music for Silenced Voices</i> and <i>Why I Read</i>, which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for <i>The New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement</i>, and other publications. She received one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards to complete <i>You Say to Brick</i>, her award-winning biography of Louis Khan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 125079840X
• ISBN 13: 9781250798404
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible