Red Handler

By: Johan Harstad, David Smith (Translator)

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Paperback | 26 March 2024

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240 Pages

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21.5 x 13.9 x 1.8

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A riotous metafictional dissection of a "famous" Norwegian detective writer

Frode Brandeggen (19702014), an unknown voice to most readers, made his debut in 1992with the experimental 2,000+ page novel Conglomerate Breath. It was never reviewed and soonforgotten. After that, he created a new genre, writing fifteen micro-novels about "Red Handler," aprotest-oriented crime fiction project aimed at confronting the genre's weakness-and oftenunnecessary length.

As his weapon, he developed a private investigator who is already at thescene or in the immediate vicinity when foul play takes place, so that the perp can be caught redhanded and the case quickly solved, thus offering crime fiction to people who don't have thetime to read long books, or who simply hate to read, but love crime.

This book brings together all fifteen micro-novels Brandeggen wrote about RedHandler 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'sclosest 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.

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Praise for Johan Harstad:

"Like Jonathan Safran Foer, Harstad combines formal play and linguistic ferocity with a searing emotional directness."--Dedi Felman, Words Without Borders

"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 review

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