Best Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery By Wendy Lesser
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Ebook About "Even those unmoved by its subject will thrill to [Scandinavian Noir], a beautifully crafted inquiry into fiction, reality, crime and place . . . Perhaps when it comes to fiction and reality, what we need most are critics like Lesser, who can dissect the former with the tools of the latter." --Kate Tuttle, The New York Times Book ReviewAn in-depth and personal exploration of Scandinavian crime fiction as a way into Scandinavian culture at largeFor nearly four decades, Wendy Lesser's primary source of information about three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—was mystery and crime novels, and the murders committed and solved in their pages. Having never visited the region, Lesser constructed a fictional Scandinavia of her own making, something between a map, a portrait, and a cultural history of a place that both exists and does not exist. Lesser’s Scandinavia is disproportionately populated with police officers, but also with the stuff of everyday life, the likes of which are relayed in great detail in the novels she read: a fully realized world complete with its own traditions, customs, and, of course, people. Over the course of many years, Lesser’s fictional Scandinavia grew more and more solidly visible to her, yet she never had a strong desire to visit the real countries that corresponded to the made-up ones. Until, she writes, “between one day and the next, that no longer seemed sufficient.” It was time to travel to Scandinavia. With vivid storytelling and an astonishing command of the literature, Wendy Lesser’s Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery illuminates the vast, peculiar world of Scandinavian noir—first as it appears on the page, then as it grows in her mind, and finally, in the summer of 2018, as it exists in reality. Guided by sharp criticism, evocative travel writing, and a whimsical need to discover “the difference between existence and imagination, reality and dream,” Scandinavian Noir is a thrilling and inventive literary adventure from a masterful writer and critic.Book Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery Review :
This is a book that I've been waiting for since I've read its synopsis. As a fellow Nordic noir aficionado, I was intrigued by the thought of a book that is all about an obsessive reader's take on the Scandinavian countries, built in its entirety by the works of this highly popular genre. Wendy Lesser a critic, novelist, and editor based in Berkeley, California, and her fascination with the genre began when she read the Martin Beck series by Per Wahloo and the recently deceased Maj Sjowall. Lesser formed a picture of the three Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway (Iceland and Finland are not a part of this exploration) through the eyes of the native authors and their work. But this was only the beginning of the author's infatuation with the genre. Soon after she moved on to reading the novels by the most well-known representatives of Scandinavia's crime fiction writers such as Jo Nesbo, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Karin Fossum, Henning Mankell, Lotte & Soren Hammer, Thomas Enger, Arne Dahl, Lars Kepler, and many others. Lesser writes: "For a long time now, my primary source of information about Denmark, Sweden, and Norway has been these novels about murders committed and murders solved. That they all contained a great deal of information aside from the murders is what has enabled me to construct my imaginary Scandinavia". The result of all this reading is a splendid book that the fans of the genre will certainly love and those who are not familiar with it will be both educated and entertained by the author's risky endeavor.Lesser's favorite Scandinavian crime fiction authors are Sjowall and Wahloo, a Swedish couple that wrote the Martin Beck series in the 1960s and 1970s. She writes: "It took a particular pair of authors working together at a specific moment in history to create that now-dominant form, the modern-day Scandinavian mystery". It should be noted that both of them were highly critical of the Swedish welfare state and lifestyle which is often beautified to the eyes of non-Scandinavians. Sjowall and Wahloo adopted a Marxist angle in their ten-book series and it is this "broad social perspective, the insistence on some kind of realism" that makes this series stand out in the author's eyes.The book is divided into two main parts. The first one ("Fiction as Reality") is a mesmerizing essay on Lesser's favorite Scandinavian crime fiction authors where she writes about what she has learned in -more or less- forty years of dedicated reading. Each chapter deals with specific themes that repeatedly appear in the Scandinavian crime/mystery novels. The author proceeds alphabetically examining the role of each motif in a variety of the genre's novels. For example in the first paragraph, which investigates the role of the alcohol, there are references to some of the most beloved Nordic detectives/protagonists such as Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole, Leif G. W. Persson's Martin Johannson, and Jussi Adler-Olsen's Carl Mork. Apart from that, some paragraphs delve into numerous subjects such as the erotic lives of many protagonists, the characterization of women detectives, the prominent role of teamwork in Scandinavian police procedural novels, and of course there are many mentions on the wider social context in which the characters live and work. But you should be warned: "This is not an Encyclopedia of Nordic crime fiction (...) it is instead something more eccentric and personal (...) what I have constructed here is a map, or a portrait, or a cultural history of a place that both exists and does not exist".In the second half of the book ("Reality as Fiction") Lesser describes her travels to the Scandinavian countries where she interviewed many real-life police detectives while also witnessing with her own eyes the real picture of the countries for which she has read so much about. As she states there is a need to make a proper distinction between the reality and the things that are made up by the imagination of the crime fiction writers. While I was enchanted by the first part, the second one seemed to be a bit inferior to me. Perhaps I'm more interested in the imaginary worlds of crime fiction and the reality seems a bit dull and tedious. Anyway, I found myself skipping some pages of the second part in contrast to the alluring appeal of the first one. Nevertheless, Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery is a highly recommendable book and the loyal fans of the genre should not miss it. It is an excellent companion to the Scandinavian crime fiction as well as a thrilling trip to the heart of the regional real and fictional existence. Wendy Lesser writes this book like someone trained in the literary philosophy known as "The New Criticism". For those using The New Criticism philosophy, the most important, sometimes even the only thing that matters is what is written on the page. Putting that writing in the context of what other writers have written is the point of almost all their projects. The author's life and the society in which the author lived may get the occasional nod. Then again they may not.In Scandinavian Noir, Wendy Lesser tries to break out of that mold and take a look at the society in which these books were written. She also makes a comment or two about the authors.The difficulty is that, rather than combining the comments on society with those on the literature, they are separated. She still can't integrate all the elements. The first part of the book deals topically with the writing and the second part deals with the society in the form of a travelog (written annoyingly in the third person). This structure means either the author repeats earlier literary observations in the second section, or the reader must thumb through the first section to see what the author said.It is also certainly possible to argue that this brief tour of Sweden, Denmark and Norway thirty years after the author started reading the books in translation, comes across as a belated and inadequate way to handle the subject. It is also possible to argue that reading the books in the languages in which they were originally written is a far better way to evaluate them than reading their translations.With all these limitations in mind, the first literary section does make some useful and interesting comparisons about what the books have in common and what they do not. The second part reads like what it is: travel writing. A reader looking for an in-depth examination of the three societies will be disappointed. However, tucked in here and there, are comments that are useful in giving background and context to the literature. 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