In this intensely psychological Modernist novel, the community of a small Norwegian coastal town is "[shaken]" by the arrival of eccentric stranger Johan Nagel, who proceeds to shock, bewilder, and beguile its bourgeoisie inhabitants with his bizarre behavior, feverish rants, and uncompromising self-revelations.
Release details
Mysteries, Knut Hamsun, Penguin Books, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-14-118618-6
In October 2011, Shades was reissued with Mysteries in a single disc format titled Mysteries / Shades, as part of the Impulse! 2-on-1 series. Both albums were the product of the same recording sessions.
The album was included in the 1996 four disc Mysteries - Impulse Years 1975-76, a box-set which also featured Jarrett's two final albums for Impulse, Byablue and Bop-Be.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album four stars stating "The Coltrane-ish 15-minute title track has passages of meditative beauty and others of listless torpor. For completists only."
Writing for jazz.com, Ted Giola gave the track "Everything That Lives Laments" a rating of 95/100 and described it as follows: "The opening section, played in a free tempo, takes on a funereal stateliness. The ensemble plays with great control and sensitivity, but the quality of sound Haden extracts from his bass deserves special mention. Then, shortly after the two-minute market, the combo settles into a lilting groove over a quirky six-bar chord pattern, where what sounds like the start of the turnaround (because the listener is expecting an eight bar structure) is actually the return to the top of the form — a clever device that is very effectively employed here... this recording testifies that his American combo ranked among the finest jazz groups of the mid-1970s."
*** is Michael Brodsky's fifth novel. The title consists of precisely threeasterisks, as mentioned on the book's copyright page as part of its Library of Congress cataloguing information.
The book centers on Stu Potts, working for Dov Grey, captain of industry, creating ***s out of raws. No underlying meanings for "***", nor for "raw", both of which occur frequently in the text, are directly suggested. Readers are left to struggle on their own. One reviewer suggested "*** seem to be (depending on the passage and on the mood of the reader) archetypal widgets, phenotypes or, occasionally, art."
*** is also metafictional. The novel begins with a "PROLOGUE" title page. No other title page appears in the novel, as if the entire novel is prologue. Early on, a short chapter consisting of instructions on the assembly of the book's "thought packets" is provided, offering contradictory advice. Towards the end, alternative plot lines are suggested and discarded, left for "the next time the story is told."
A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.
The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modernromance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,
The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."
Novel is the second album released by singer Joey Pearson. This second album of Pearson's has one of his songs from his debut album, Don't Give Up, which was extended and remixed for the new album. It also contains a version of Stevie Wonder's Living for the City.
This novel depicts the impact of a child’s mental illness on family dynamics and the different, individual ...Themes of class, wealth, privilege, reputation and hubris run through this mystery novel.
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... a dark secret in their home (premiering on Disney+ and Hulu on Friday) Rosarita, a novel by Anita Desai about a woman who is approached by a mysterious person about her mother’s past (out Tuesday).
Homestead. BDN’s Homestead section is a celebration of rural life ... Read more Homestead stories here ... Second Generation Back-to-the-Landers” by Joseph Conway ... Credit ... Bamman is also writing a literary mystery novel about back-to-the-landers in the 1970s.
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Marking 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth, this fascinating four-parter, adapted from Gill Hornby’s bestselling literary mystery novel, stars Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen, elder sister of Jane.
With the help of the public’s creative penmanship, those signed up for next month’s delivery will be getting a small bonus besides their mystery novels and blockbusters — a Valentine’s Day card ... (Frank Mecham- The News-Herald).
Replace Bismarck with Putin and oil with missionaries, and this passage from Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim could almost have been written about Russia’s mysterious shadow fleet ... The life expectancy of an oil tanker is 15 years ... This isn’t a drill.
The Mystery of the Vanishing Boy is a dual voice novel for middle grade readers that explores the bonds of love that persist even beyond death ... and loss in this time-crossed middle grade novel.”.
It’s the ninth Netflix series based on the mystery writer’s novels and several cast members, and some of the cast, Richard Armitage and James Nesbitt, starred in previous series based on his works.
A cancer survivor, she loves horses and also writes mysteries and penned a novel inspired by the journal entries of her dad, a World War II veteran ... You can go straight to historical fiction, mysteries, etc.
Netflix fans were over the moon to have a brand new crime drama adapted from Harlan Coben's mystery novels after the success of Fool Me Once last year ... The relevance of Titus's dog breeding farm ... StreamingNetflix. .
A fervent reader of MysteryNovels, she also enjoys reading children's stories to her own children and other children in the family ... to short stories, a novel as a school project, and a small thriller.
