Johan Harstad The Red Handler. Op 26 maart 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Open Letter Books de Engelse vertaling van The Red Handler de laatste roman van de Noorse schrijver Johan Harstad. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave.
Johan Harstad The Red Handler recensie
- “The fact is that Johan Harstad has a wholly unique voice, simultaneously both concrete and soaring . . . to be able to write in this way, to conjure a situation and construct space and time around it with such linguistic fluency, cannot be learned. You are born with it. Harstad’s fellow countryman Knut Hamsun, who was able to do the same, must be rejoicing in his heaven or wherever he might be.” (Jakob Levinsen, Jyllands-Posten)
Johan Harstad boeken en informatie
Johan Harstad is geboren op 10 februari 1979 in de Noorse stad Stavanger. Naast romans en verhalen schrijft hij ook toneelstukken en scenario’s. De meeste van zijn romans en andere boeken zijn in Nederlandse vertaling ontvangen en over het algemeen lovend besproken. Van zijn laatste roman is nog niet bekend of deze in het Nederlands vertaald zal worden, wel verschijnt in maart 2024 de Engelse vertaling waarover je hier alles kunt lezen.
The Red Handler
- Auteur: Johan Harstad (Noorwegen)
- Soort boek: Noorse roman
- Origineel: Ferskenen : samlede verker : annotert utgave (2018)
- Engelse vertaling: David Smith
- Uitgever: Open Letter Books
- Verschijnt: 26 maart 2024
- Omvang: 173 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: €14,95 / € 9,95
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Johan Harstad
A riotous metafictional dissection of a “famous” Norwegian detective writer
Frode Brandeggen (1970–2014), an unknown voice to most readers, made his debut in 1992 with the experimental 2,000+ page novel Conglomerate Breath. It was never reviewed and soon forgotten. After that, he created a new genre, writing fifteen micro-novels about “Red Handler,” a protest-oriented crime fiction project aimed at confronting the genre’s weakness—and often unnecessary length.
As his weapon, he developed a private investigator who is already at the scene or in the immediate vicinity when foul play takes place, so that the perp can be caught red handed and the case quickly solved, thus offering crime fiction to people who don’t have the time to read long books, or who simply hate to read, but love crime.
This book brings together all fifteen micro-novels Brandeggen wrote about Red Handler for the first time, and is also equipped with a comprehensive amount of enthusiastic, explanatory, complementary, and sometimes strangely digressive endnotes, written in the pen of Brandeggen’s closest literary confidant in the final years, German professional annotator Bruno Aigner (1934–).
This novel about the fiction Red Handler, Frode Brandeggen, and Bruno Aigner is Johan Harstad’s wildest, most hysterical project to date.
