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In the sixteenth-century, Antinous Bellori, a child of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two excellent creatures, one holding a spear, another a flaming torch … This occasion is definitive in Bellori’s existence, and he afterwards devotes herself to the search and study of angels, the intermediaries of the heavenly. From the Garden of Eden and rising to the current, A Period for Anything reimagines critical encounters between people and angels: the shine of the cherubim viewing over Eden; the serious love between Cain and Abel despite their variations; Lot’s disgrace in Sodom; Noah’s seclusion prior to the deluge; Ezekiel associated with his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the introduction of sensuous, naughty cherubs in the seventeenth-century. Alighting upon these remarkable moments – in the Bible and beyond – Knausgaard’s creativity takes flight: the end result is just a stunning show of storytelling at its regal, hypnotic best. Integrating and difficult convention, story, and the Apocrypha, these penetrating glimpses risk relaxing issues: can the character of the heavenly endure change, and can the immortal die?