Dorthe Nors. (2016). So Much for That Winter: Novellas. Graywolf Press.

Dorthe Nors. 2016. So Much for That Winter: Novellas. Graywolf Press.

Dorthe Nors, So Much for That Winter: Novellas. Graywolf Press, 2016.

Dorthe Nors. So Much for That Winter: Novellas. Graywolf Press, 2016.

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   • bioText: Dorthe Nors received the 2014 Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize for Karate Chop, which Publishers Weeklynamed one of the best books of 2014. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and A Public Space.
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Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days—one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor, howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, we experience with her the full range of emotions: anger, loneliness, regret, pain, and also joy, as the lists become a way to understand, connect to, and rebuild her life.
In "Minna Needs Rehearsal Space," a novella told in headlines, an avant-garde musician is dumped via text message. Fleeing the indignity of the breakup and friends who flaunt their achievements in life, career, and family, Minna unfriends people on Facebook, listens to Bach, and reads Ingmar Bergman, then decamps to an island near Sweden, "well suited to mental catharsis." A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors's unique wit and humor.

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   • content: "[So Much for That Winter is] one of the speediest and most intriguing of this year's summer books. . . . The rhythm of Nors' work, shaped from headlines, fragments and status updates, is eerily familiar. Her innovative novellas hold a mirror to our disjointed times."
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   • content: "Nors' writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical. Her characters seesaw between longing for human connection and the space in which to lick their wounds. That she achieves all this while experimenting with form is something of an impossible feat. . . . Nors has created an exciting and artful literary diptych."
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   • content: "If forevermore we are obliged to think in headlines and status updates, let us sound like Dorthe Nors."
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   • content: "Nors addresses crucial questions of contemporary existence with great humor and humanity. . . . Nors' gaze is intimate and unflinching as she examines the isolation that arises from a plugged-in world."
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   • content: "In [So Much for That Winter] there is inventiveness and motion, angst and loss, puzzles and minor epiphanies. . . . Nors packs much into her telegraphic works. . . . [The novellas] contain despair, grief, family conflicts, aesthetic pursuits, and the mundane; the two narrators are present, flesh, bone, heart, and spirit."
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     April 18, 2016
     These two experimental novellas from Nors (Karate Chop) follow artists through personal and aesthetic crises after breakups. The first, “Minna Needs Rehearsal Space,” shows Nors’s economy and perceptiveness, and outshines the second, “Days.” Minna is a Copenhagen avant-garde composer working on a sonata of tonal rows, the rules of which the author mirrors in syntax: repetition, inversion, and reordering of a limited set. The resulting “see Spot run” style would be merely cutesy in less talented hands. Minna is “in many ways desperate,” recently dumped via text and at odds with the women in her life. Coffee with Jette, a harpist who dates married men, agitates Minna’s professional and romantic anxieties. Karin, happy in the hinterlands, “brags about motocross, sex, and pork sausage.” Their email volleys exemplify the story’s dry humor. Minna learns of her mother’s disappointment at her childlessness through her blog. Her domineering sister hounds her all the way to a Baltic island, where Minna finally outruns cell phone service and the reader is treated to a cathartic and suspenseful climax. This rich social world is almost entirely absent from “Days,” a sort of diary burdened with inscrutable line-numbering. Here, the pang of romantic loss is squelched by vagueness, and the self-absorbed writer protagonist insists on sharing her melodramatic appreciations of graveyards. Fortunately, Nors’s fine-grained renderings of ordinary moments periodically zap the world back to life.

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     April 15, 2016
     These two novellas present an edgy evocation of contemporary life. Nors is a creator of small spaces; her fiction is relentless, edgy, brief. The Danish writer's collection Karate Chop (2014) gathered 15 stories in 88 pages: work marked by sudden turns through which characters must come to grips with the unexamined assumptions of their lives. Nors aspires to something similar with her new book, which brings together a pair of novellas, although we may as well call them extended prose poems. In the first, Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, she uses short declarative sentences--each framed as a single paragraph--to tell the story of a composer who desires nothing more than a kind of lasting silence, while the second, Days, comes framed as a succession of lists. The idea is to deconstruct, or rewire, narrative by stripping away excess detail in favor of something closer to pure consciousness. Yet lest this sound off-putting or difficult, it couldn't be more accessible. The key is Nors' specificity, which roots us in the lives she reveals. "Minna walks around among ordinary people," she writes. "Ordinary people cheat on their taxes. / Ordinary people go to swinger clubs. / Ordinary people flee the scene of the crime." What Nors is after is the peculiar anomie of contemporary living, in which despite being constantly in touch with one another, we have never been further apart. As a consequence, we are often disconnected, separated by distances that seem impossible to bridge. All that's left to us are the smallest details, which become the lens through which we reckon with ourselves. "1. Woke an hour early," explains the narrator of Days. "2. made instant coffee, / 3. drank it, / 4. stood by my kitchen window the same way I stood by my kitchen window when I lived on the island of Fan and went down to the beach every day and crushed razor shells underfoot: Why do I live here? I'd wondered / 5. and couldn't have known that one day I would stand in a flat in Valby and look at the crooked tulips in the backyard and wonder the same thing." In these novellas, people never really know each other, which means they must take their consolations where they can.

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