Ingvar Ambjørnsens hytte-noir
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Ellen Rees
Abstract
This article considers links between contemporary Norwegian writer Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s novel Natten drømmer om dagen (2012; The night dreams of the day) and the concept of noir, both in relation to more traditional film noir, to classic hard-boiled crime fiction, and to the recent trend in crime fiction and television known popularly as “Nordic noir”. The author argues that Ambjørnsen reworks key elements of noir aesthetics and thematics, for example relocating the setting from the more typical “urban jungle” to an equally dark and brooding forest landscape. Ambjørnsen simultaneously activates and dismantles tropes associated with both Norwegian identity (nature, the vacation cabin) and with noir (the anti-hero, the femme fatale) to create a complex social critique of late modern Norwegian society.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Die Trollfrau als kultureller Katalysator in der Illuga saga Gríðarfóstra
- Telling True Lies. Metanarration, Intertextuality and (Un)reliability in Holberg’s Iter subterraneum
- Ingvar Ambjørnsens hytte-noir
- Trollism, Reality Hunger, and Vulnerability. Trolls in film and literature in the 2000’s
- Conceptual relations in the semantic domain of Swedish dimensional adjectives
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- Wolfgang Krause:Schriften zur Runologie und Sprachwissenschaft
- Ellen Rees:Ibsen‘s Peer Gynt and the Production of Meaning
- Christian Berrenberg:„Es ist deine Pflicht zu benutzen, was du weißt!“ Literatur und literarische Praktiken in der norwegischen Arbeiterbewegung 1900–1931
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