The Seven Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier’s

Life in Twenty-four Chapters

KEREN CYTTER

The seven most exciting hours … is an adventure novel based on a true story told in a televised interview by the notorious Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. Set around a Copenhagen hospital, it describes seven hours in the life of Tibor Klaus Trier—the filmmaker’s father—from the moment that his wife goes into labor early in the morning until Lars is born. The plot only then begins to thicken: car-jackings, family murder, zombies, Armageddon, and phantom diagnosis of cancer all vie for attention. Using classic slasher flicks and psychological pot-boilers–and a wink to Glenn Gould–as its guides, Cytter explores the metaphysical wildness of mind representative of von Trier’s work.

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