Jenny Hval – författare

"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder."Chris Kraus, author of I Love DickJo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive as the days pass. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.This debut novel from a critically adored artist and musician presents a heady and hypersensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo''s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.Jenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art.

Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.Jenny Hval''s latest novel is a radical fusion of feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art.

Der eindringliche Roman der gefeierten Musikerin: ein erotischer FiebertraumJo ist als Austauschstudentin in einem seltsamen neuen Land. Sie verläuft sich, findet keine Wohnung und erst recht keinen Anschluss. All ihre Probleme scheinen gelöst, als Carral sie bei sich aufnimmt. In einem alten Brauereigebäude ohne Wände, das sie sich fortan mit der immer grenzenloser werdenden Frau teilt, werden Jos Sensibilität und all ihre Sinne auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Je näher die beiden sich kommen, desto weniger kann Jo zwischen ihrem und Carrals Körper unterscheiden, beide erscheinen ihr wie ein zusammenhängendes Geflecht, wie Pflanzen. Auch ihre Träume und ihr waches Erleben verschwimmen, bis sie glaubt, sich selbst in der Fremden verloren zu haben.Die norwegische Musikerin und Schriftstellerin Jenny Hval schafft in ihrer Prosa das, wofür auch ihre Musik gefeiert wird: Ein so tiefer wie kompromissloser Blick auf Politik und Sexualität, Begehren und Körper.