Study Het Lied Van De Rode Robijn Executed By Agnar Mykle Available In PDF

langtekkelig, men en veldig fin studentbok Best book I've read all year, Jeg leste denne boken dagen før jeg selv, en student i den gode alder avår, tok fatt på en flytteprosess.
Vi snakker bokser, kasser, esker, Denne boken leste jeg dagen før jeg tok fatt på denne prosessen, Det gjør også dette til en dårlig anmeldelse i og med at man må ha lest boken for å forstå hva jeg sikter til.

I frykt for å ha for store forventninger til egen flytting må jeg nok gi denne bokenav,
Jeg koste meg når jeg denne her boken leste,
Fikk jeg Skrevet, jeg, at jeg flytter Fricking fantastic! I read it more than just twice after I bought it.
For a review in Dutch, see sitelink'Foreign fiction translated into Dutch/Flemish' of the Netherlands amp Flanders group.
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Class Struggle of a Narcissist

Song of the Red Ruby is the second book of the trilogy by Agnar Mykle.
To me this book was a bit less compelling than the first, Again we have some sort of framing story although it is much closer to the main story, and also rather short.
The main story picks up where the one from sitelinkLasso left off, Ask Burlefot is now a student and moves to Bergen in Norway to start his studies at the commercial college.
The time frame isuntil May, We learn about Ask's life there, about the growing number of conquests he makes read: women who get laid by him, the costudents, professors, and last but not least about the members of the club of socialist he becomes a member of.


What this book doesn't deliver, at least not in the way the previous did, is the description of the Norwegian society in general.
Maybe this is because the setting, Bergen, is not as "exotic" as the previous one, Kirkenes, Of Bergen you only learn that it is raining a lot there, a fact I already knew, I would have expected that the imminent war with Germany would be much more of a topic, especially within the political group of the socialists.
It is true that the war, the conditions in Germany, and the Nazis do get mentioned on several occasions.
However I had the impression that this was deliberately downplayed by the author, Perhaps these issues weren't discussed in Norway at that time and the writing merely reflects this situation Perhaps it is also because Ask Burlefot is more interested in other things, and that is Ask Burlefot.
In my eyes he is, if you take away his his rather romantic ideas about the socialist class struggle, nothing much more than a bigheaded narcissist.
He also apparently has a rather excessive sexual drive, It never gets out of control though, except maybe once, Which brings me to

the famous Mykle case:

The publication of The Song of the Red Ruby inignited what became one of the most famous court cases in Norwegian history.
Mykle and his publisher Harald Grieg were accused of writing and publishing immoral and obscene material, Mykle and Grieg were both acquitted, but the remaining copies of the book were ordered withdrawn from the market.
The Norwegian Supreme Court overturned the ruling on the confiscation in,
source sitelinkWikipedia

There are quite a few sex scenes in this book, more than in Lasso, and they are quite explicit.
I wouldn't consider those scenes "obscene" or "pornographic" though, and this book is not an erotic novel at all BTW A search for "erotic novel" in the Amazon Kindle Store will give youtitles.
The sex is necessary to get an understanding of the Ask Burlefot character,

What puzzles me about Mykle's books is the fact that they are in fact thirdperson narratives, Whenever I started a reading session it took a little while to tune in, In my mind it was always Ask telling me his story, I would imagine that the books would have worked better as a firstperson account, The Ask Character alone deserves no better than a two star rating, but the books as a whole are still compelling enough, and satisfy the curiosity about other people's lives, even if those lives have not much to do with your own.


In the series sitelink"Ask Burlefot" there are only two books, However, Agnar Mykle wrote a third novel with the telling title sitelinkRubicon whose Blurb reads like a sequel to the Red Ruby.
Only the name of the protagonist is different,

sitelink
This work is licensed under a sitelinkCreative Commons AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike,Unported License. Provocative, and banned when it first was published, Not on my booksyougottoreadbeforeyoudie list, though, I first read it in its original Norwegian when I was, I quickly fell in love, beautifully written, . . It has stayed with me ever since, My crush on Ask Burlefot is still very much aliveyears later, I've read it many many times in Norwegian and in English, Adore this book. I adore Ask and Embla, Beautiful and poetic. Awesome, awesome, awesome. I can't remember the last time that I read something so frickin' funny and moving, I suspect that people who rated it low expected more sex in it due to it being the subject of the world's most famous obscenity case.
Note: most U. S. editions are abridged for content, too, Themass market is supposed to be complete,

It's a great bildungsroman and a very alive portrait of Norway in thes, Song of the Red Ruby is also a nice reminder that a hilarious figgin' book can still be great literature, something that most contemporary authors have forgotten.
Kärleksroman från ett manligt perspektiv, finstämd ändå in till sista frasen:
"Han visste det nu.
Kärleken är något som andra inte vet om, Kärleken är något ensamt",
Jeg ble slått i bakken av hvor mye jeg kjenner meg igjen i Ask sine reaksjoner og perspektiver, så mye at jeg skammer meg.
Jeg forundrer meg over flere ting hvordan kan jeg være så lik en person som "levde" forår siden.
Jeg synes boken er komplisert og den vil nesten definitivt vekke følelser i alle som leser den første gang.


Til min mor fortalte jeg at boken gir inntrykk av å være skrevet av menn til menn.
Kvinnens rolle i denne boken er ubegripelig, det er mye som ikke henger på greip, Jeg forstår ikke hvordan Ask kan gå gjennom livet uten å møte konsekvensene for hvordan han behandler kvinner, men jeg har da ikke måttet gjøre det jeg heller, selv om jeg ikke har voldtatt noen har jeg ikke alltid vært en engel.
Så i den forstand er den fortsatt aktuell, Askog kanskje forfatteren har vel ingen grunn til å endre sin oppførsel mot kvinner når han aldri får konsekvenser for det.


Sånn var det på den tiden Jeg tror unge menn i mange år fortsatt vil kunne kjenne seg igjen i karakteren, og ikke nødvendigvis på en konstruktiv måte.
Det minner meg om det nylige intervjuet til shia lebeouf hvor han snakker om mishandlingen han har gjort mot kvinner.
Kan anbefale å se intervjuet hvis man er interessert i temaet, Ask blir aldri voksen i den forstand, men hvem skal stoppe han

Jeg leste den ferdig foruker siden men jobber fortsatt med å fordøye den, og det vil jeg sikkert gjøre lenge.
Jeg forstår at enkelte unge menn kan ha kjent seg igjen i denne boken: hovedkarakteren er ekstremt usikker på seg selv samtidig som han mener han har livets rett, og derfor oppfører seg som en drittsekk.
Jeg prøver å se boken slik den er ment for denne tiden og som en bok som bør leses på ungdomsskolen, men feministen i meg reagerer med brekninger: I en scene straffer hovedkarakteren en kvinne seksuelt i dag hadde det blitt kalt for en voldtekt.
Gamle klassikere er ikke alltid slik vi ønsker at de skal være,stjerner,kanskje Fin, samfunnsøkonomisk og ærlig, Intense and fastpaced, some sentences will float in your head like you're singing them, A most interesting novel by Mykle on living in the ol' days and how, as a youngster, to come to terms with your own thoughts.
Few parts stumble in political babbling, and the degree in which the protagonist is getting absorbed in his own feelings are sometimes bizarre.
Nonetheless, it is dripping with strong, tactile emotions with lots of sexiness to keep your attention, If you want a starknaked reading experience, go fetch! I read banned books!

Young socialist/student beds women and questions everything.
Lots of sexy bits. Answers to sitelinktest from part

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It is impossible to believe the author's claim that the Ask Burlefot novels are not based on incidents from his life.
A large number of important plot points correspond well with facts readily available on the web Heger'sbiography, sitelink Mykle: Ett diktet liv, provides many more confirming details, even though he also mentions several places where book and reality clearly diverge.


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Europe, as Doris Lessing memorably calls it in Shikasta, constitutes "the northwest fringes of the major landmass" Norway is at the edge of Europe Kirknes is at the far end of Norway.
I think D is most appropriate,

The following map may be useful:



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It is not at all easy to say which of the cited novels "Ask Burlefot" most closely resembles, and one can make a reasonable case for all four.
I was initially most tempted to associate it with Fear of Flying, Mykle is as fascinated with cunts as Jong is with cocks, and even today one is startled by the detailed descriptions he provides I'm almost having trouble remembering that I haven't in fact had sex with any of these women.
The books sold well on their reputation as pornography, and sitelinkthemovie sounds as though it's been entirely reorganized along these lines.


But, as the story progressed, I began to feel that it was unfair to think of Mykle as a simple pornographer.
Even though Ask spends a large part of his time seducing various women and the sex is described in great detail, the way in which it was presented increasingly reminded me of Updike's "Rabbit" books.
Mykle wants to give you an unvarnished interior portrait of what an irresponsible sex addict is like, and, as with Rabbit, he is just as detailed in showing you the consequences of Ask's heartless behavior.
At the beginning, you're probably identifying with him and enjoying his erotic adventures by the end, you're identifying at least as much with the women and wanting to defend them.
I'm sure this is intentional,

Comparing with the Kjærstad and Knausgård novels, both writers seem to have studied Mykle closely and developed his ideas in new and fruitful directions.
Kjærstad has reworked the erotic themes in a more satisfying way, and created a book which is artistically and philosophically much deeper.
He is rather touchingly explicit about his debt to Mykle, and in fact it was only because of his enthusiastic though characteristically ambiguous praise that I ever got around to reading him.
But the most interesting comparison is Knausgård, Min kamp, in a way, starts where Mykle finishes, confronting the moral aspects headon and making them the central theme.
Throughout Mykle, you can never stop thinking that what he's doing is not right: the fact that he's going to use this as material for his novel surely doesn't permit him to behave so dreadfully to the various women in his life, and the passage in bookwhere he explicitly tries to excuse himelf in these terms is uncomfortable reading.
Mykle's books take place in the lates, with the Third Reich constantly in the background, Ask hates Hitler, but does nothing worth mentioning to oppose the many Nazi sympathizers he meets, and his own behavior is in a way just the same megalomaniac ruthlessness on a smaller scale.
All of this is glossed over in Mykle, but Knausgård, to his credit, examines the questions with the seriousness they deserve.


Mykle's books have obvious flaws, but they are alive in a way few novels are, They have had a large influence, and it's odd that they've been forgotten outside Norway,

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I found myself constantly changing my mind about the extent to which Mykle's books are misogynistic.
Many passages, at least on the surface, are shockingly misogynistic, but one is never quite certain what is ironic and what is not.
Some passages almost have to be ironic, but others come across as pretty much straight, In particular, he tells us many times how much he hates his mother, and as far as I can see the obvious interpretation is the correct one.
There are other passages where he sexually exploits women, without it in any way being obvious that the author thinks there might be something wrong with what he's done.


I did not find Mykle as misogynistic as Strindberg, but he easily stands comparison with the other authors.


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It's not a trick question: the imagery is to a large extent based on classical sagas of the Norse gods and business administration workbooks.
Of these, the first works reasonably well, but I'm not too confident about the second, The author spent a lot of time working in business administration schools, and it is quite astonishing how often he makes detailed allusions to it.
It's one of things that made me feel he really wasn't very sane,

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i "Gunnhild" B

ii "Siv" C

iii Ask's mother A

It's interesting to note that Ask's mother only has a very small role in the second volume and that the angelic Siv has completely disappeared.
Gunnhild, on the other hand, is a constant shadowy menace in the background, Sometimes Ask feels sorry for her, but more often he expresses his utter disgust with the cheap, vulgar nearalcoholic prostitute who was cruel enough to have become pregnant by him.
It is unpleasant to read,

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Another thing I constantly found myself wondering about was the extent to which the sex scenes were taken from life.
They are described in an startlingly circumstantial way, but some of them are also very hard to believe,

I found myself swinging back and forward between two opposing views, It seems plausible that Mykle was indeed extremely attractive to women, and perhaps he was the tireless sexual athlete that's depicted here.
On the other hand, there's the scene in volumewith the ageing Captain that Ask meets on the boat, who's so very explicit about his own adventures.
It's suggested that the Captain is a boastful liar who's exaggerating the extent of his conquests because he feels his best years are over, and soon he'll be unable to satisfy the girls.
When Mykle wrote the novels he would have been about the Captain's age, Maybe this is his sly way of telling you that he's an unreliable sexual narrator,

As usual in this odd novel, you aren't sure what's going on or how subtle the author is being.
Mykle says in the foreword to volumethat his book should be read twice, Perhaps I'll have to do that,
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