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Asta Olivia Nordenhof's Latest Review: A Danish Series Burning with Purpose
In the early hours of April 7 1990, a devastating blaze erupted on board the MS Scandinavian Star, a car and passenger ferry traveling between Frederikshavn and Oslo. Insufficient staff preparedness combined with malfunctioning fire doors accelerated the spread of the fire, while deadly cyanide gas emitted from combusting materials caused the deaths of 159 people. At first, the tragedy was attributed to a traveler—a lorry driver with a history of arson. Given that this suspect also died in the fire and was not able to defend himself, the complete facts about the event stayed hidden for a long time. It wasn't until 2020 that a comprehensive investigation revealed the blaze was probably set intentionally as part of an insurance fraud.
Asta Olivia Nordenhof's Scandinavian Star Sequence: A Glimpse
Within the initial book of Nordenhof's Scandinavian Star sequence, Money to Burn, an unidentified narrator is traveling on a bus through the Danish capital when she notices an older man on the sidewalk. As the vehicle drives away, she experiences an “eerie sense” that she is carrying a piece of him with her. Compelled to repeat the journey in pursuit of him, the narrator finds herself in a landscape that is both unfamiliar and strangely known. She presents us to a couple named Maggie and Kurt, whose connection is tested by the pressures of their conflicted pasts. In the final pages of that book, it is implied that the source of Kurt's discontent may stem from a disastrous investment made on his account by a man referred to as T.
This New Volume: A Unique Narrative Style
This second installment begins with an lengthy prose poem in which the narrator describes her struggle to write T's story. “In this second volume,” she writes, “we were meant / to trace him / from youth up until / the evening / when he sat anticipating for / the report that / the fire / on the ferry / had effectively been / set.” Overwhelmed by the task she has assigned herself and disrupted by the global health crisis, she approaches the story obliquely, as a type of parable. “It occurred to me / that I / can do / anything I want / so this / is my book / this is / for you / this is / an sensational story / about entrepreneurs and / the dark force.”
A narrative slowly unfolds of a woman who spends quarantine in the UK capital with a near-unknown person and over the course of those weeks relates to him what occurred to her a decade earlier, when she agreed to an offer from a figure who professed to be the devil to grant all her wishes, so long as she didn't doubt his motives. As the threads of the two stories become more interwoven, we begin to suspect that they are identical—or at the very least that the identity of T is multiple, for there are demonic forces everywhere.
Another blaze is present: a passionate, magnetic dedication to writing as a form of activism
Pacts and Consequences: A Thematic Examination
Classic stories teach us that it is the devil who does deals, not a divine being, and that we engage in them at our peril. But suppose the narrator herself is the malevolent force? A additional storyline eventually emerges—the story of a girl whose childhood was scarred by mistreatment and who spent time in a mental health facility, under duress to comply with social expectations or endure further harm. “[The devil] understands that in the game you've created for it, there are a pair of outcomes: surrender or stay a monster.” A third way out is ultimately revealed through a collection of verses to the night that are also a call to arms against the influences of wealth and power.
Parallels and Interpretations: From Fiction to Real Events
Numerous British readers of Nordenhof's Scandinavian Star books will reflect right away of the Grenfell Tower fire, which, though accidental in cause, bears similarities in that the ensuing tragedy and fatalities can be attributed at least partly to the devil's bargain of prioritizing financial gain over people. In these first two volumes of what is projected to be a seven-book series, the blaze aboard the ferry and the series of fraudulent transactions that ended in multiple deaths are a sinister underlying element, showing themselves only in fleeting flashes of detail or implication yet casting a deepening influence over all that transpires. Some individuals may doubt how much it is possible to read The Devil Book as a stand-alone piece, when its purpose and meaning are so intricately bound into a broader narrative whose final form, at this stage, is uncertain.
Experimental Writing: Ethics and Aesthetics Intertwined
There will be others—and I count myself as among them—who will fall in love with the author's project purely as written art, as properly innovative literature whose moral and artistic purpose are so profoundly interlinked as to make them inextricable. “Compose verses / for we require / that as well.” There is another fire here: an intense, attractive devotion to the craft as a statement. I will persist to follow this series, no matter where it goes.
Brian Hernandez
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