Alle nyanser av sinne

by Mari Tveita Stagrim

Alle nyanser av sinne er en samling fortellinger om alle de dagene som ikke ble sånn som man trodde de skulle bli. Når du står med øksa i hånda og har slått i stykker en dør, når du har sneket deg inn på en pelsdyrfarm og ikke vet hvorfor, når du har ligget med fem av kameratene til nesten-kjæresten din, når noen forteller deg at Norge er et fucka sosialdemokratisk høl, og om byen der det står skrevet SUG DEG SELV med sprittusj på en dør.

Genres: Short Stories, Poetry

90 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Living in Oslo, Mari Tveita Stagrim is one of the driving forces of the writing collective A.K.R.O.N.Y.M.

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alle nyanser av sinne is a short story collection containing small and abrupt stories about how we humans react and how we behave in difficult and abnormal – and normal – situations. It is about the days that did not turn out quite as we thought they would, and about how those days can change the way we think of ourselves and also how we feel about others. The collection encompasses a good mixture of the bizarre and the tragic. And the hard-hitting content matter in some of these stories is balanced out with simple and comprehensible language. At some points I wish the language had been more challenging and poignant. Stagrim uses a lot of repetitions when the story is reaching the turning point, but I wish she had been more innovative and experimental in her writing. Yet, this collection shows a great potential and I am prompted to read her next book.

My favourite story was Det som er deg, og det som er meg in which Stagrim makes something so normal and trivial as an everyday argument into a story with suspense and a significant realization. This is where Stagrim shows her genius in my opinion. Some of the other stories were harder to relate to and even without meaning at times. This is partly because the reader only follows the main characters for a few pages (some of the stories are very short and spanning over a very short time period) and also because she left some parts flat and plane when she could have taken it even further and perhaps brought the stories to a level of higher complexity, perhaps with more description of the characters' emotional journeys.

[Neda Alaei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disse fortellingene kjente jeg under huden.

[Kine Albrigtsen · Rating 2 out of 5]

En novellesamling full av beskrivelser, uten kontekst og følelser.

[Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 Likte ideen og grunnhistoriene men utføringen var mangelfull.

[Sunniva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Denne falt ikke helt i smak hos meg, ingen spesiell grunn annet enn at novellene bare ikke resonerte helt i min personlige mening. Leste omtrent tre fjerdedelen før jeg la den vekk.