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ISBN: 9780374604752

Inhalt: " From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots , a collection of playfully surreal stories about love, death, and metamorphosis. In Evil Flowers , a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild Øyehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life. Across twenty-five stories, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis's observation that her every story is a formal surprise, smart and droll. The stories converse with, contradict, and expand on one another,birds, hagfish, and wild beasts reappear, gnawing at the fringes. A section of a woman's brain slips into the toilet bowl, removing her ability to remember or recognize types of birds (particularly problematic because she is an ornithologist). Medicinal leeches ingest information from fiberoptic cables, and a new museum sinks into the ground. Inspired by Charles Baudelaire, a dreamer and romantic in the era of realism, Øyehaug revolts against the ordinary, reaching instead for the wonder to be found in fantasy and absurdity. Brimming with wit, ingenuity, and irrepressible joy, these stories mark another triumph from a dazzling international writer. "

Inhalt: Biographisches: " Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her story collection Knots was published by FSG in 2017, followed in 2018 by Wait, Blink , which was adapted into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men's Shirts , and in 2022 by Present Tense Machine . Øyehaug lives in Bergen, where she teaches creative writing." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from November 14, 2022 In this charming and inventive collection, 216" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 15, 2022 A collection of 25 formally diverse, wide-ranging short and very short stories from the always surprising Norwegian author. In her fourth book to be translated into English, once more by Dickson--who handles its sly, fairy-tale-infused, theory-laced trickery with aplomb--�yehaug again displays her playfulness and attention to form, revealing the literary scaffolding and ropes that support the scenery of the often unstable narrative surface. Beginning the collection (with a truly memorable opening line) is Birds, in which an ornithologist who has been preparing to defend her thesis loses the piece of her brain that contains all her knowledge of birds. She embarks on a quest to piece back together her ornithological expertise in time for her defense, though what she learns about who she is--or perhaps was--in the process is the more vital and wounding knowledge. In the title story, what begins as a tale about a made-up bus driver and made-up passenger progresses to the real story, in which the narrator has broken the sesamoid bones in their feet after, they realize, picking evil flowers (Oh no, evil flowers, I whispered to myself as I lay there), which they assure us are very real, though everything else is made up, and though Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, from which the title is taken, were a metaphor. This leads into a description of Etienne Carjat's famous photograph of Baudelaire and an extrapolation of how Baudelaire might feel about the title of his work being appropriated for such a story. A Bit Like This follows, a story that consists only of a copy of this photograph, showing Baudelaire looking as described and seemingly displeased with the proceedings, with no caption, credit, or text of any kind. Motifs, imagery, and forms pinball throughout the rest of the collection, making a messily cohesive whole tied together by anxieties, absurdities, and death--but in a fun way. A fresh slice of �yehaug's work, ideal for seekers of spry experimental short fiction. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2023 �yehaug (Present Tense Machine, 2022) stuns with this delightful, refreshing, read-in-one-sitting short story collection that's sure to be unlike anything else you'll pick up this year. �yehaug surprises the reader with every word, using various forms and narrative structures and impressing with each. The stories are especially self-referential, and while each work can stand on its own, it is also part of a whole, creating a cohesive and wonderfully odd collection. The Thread and its related stories are particularly stirring, as the author uses intentional language to create a thread connecting each piece. Other stories showcase �yehaug's poetic talents,at just one page, Seconds tells a tale that some novels don't accomplish. Simply put, �yehaug continues to excite, and fans of her previous works--particularly Knots (2017), her earlier collection of short fiction--will find this thread an exciting one to follow. COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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