Anna Maria Harm : roman

Omtale

Peter Serck's latest novel is a wistful tale about the young photographic artist Anna Maria Harm and her inconclusive love affair with the ageing gallery owner who displays her work. He is agonising about his fear for her new, terrible photographs, which he only hesitatingly agrees to exhibit. They are forbidden by Norwegian law; showing dead people, they remind him of a suicide he always has blamed himself for not managing to prevent. It also worries him that Anna's only woman friend is suicidal and plans to film the act of killing herself in order to become famous after death. To stop her, he invites her to exhibit in his gallery. So, step by step, he is dragged into an existential situation which he tries to control with a growing desperation, which his passionate relationship with Anna in the end cannot cure. Anna Maria Harm is an intense, modernist novel that offers insights into the labyrinths of the human mind and into the unsettling and problematic issues raised by contemporary art.