Red Handler
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A riotous metafictional dissection of a "famous" Norwegian detective writer
Frode Brandeggen (1970?2014), 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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David Smith grew up outside of Atlanta and studied English and philosophy at the University of Georgia. He then earned a Master's Degree in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. After Chicago, a lifelong interest in his family's Nordic heritage brought him to Norway. He took language classes at the University of Oslo, before settling in Bergen and starting to work as a commercial translator. In 2014, he earned a National Translator Accreditation from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. He is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Biography
- Contents
- The Red Handler hot on the Trail
- The Red Handler Stumbles Across it
- The Red Handler and the Glimmer Man
- The Red Handler and the Great Diamond Heist
- The Red Handler and the Musical Bandit
- The Red Handler and the Secret Massage Studio
- The Red Handler and the Lucky Murderer
- The Red Handler and the Traveling Salesman who Didn't Work for Microsoft
- The Red Handler and the Unsolvable Mystery of the Burmese Cat
- The Red Handler and the Difficult Sabbath
- The Red Handler on Vacation in Denmark
- The Red Handler and the Presumptuous Murderer
- The Red Handler and the Out-of-Control Urine
- The Red Handler Comes too Late
- The Red Handler Lands in Trouble with the Authorities
- Endnotes
- About the Author
