[SKRIVA] Larssoniana
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:30:03 +0200
The New York Review of Books hade nyligen en lång artikel om, samt recension
av, vår vän Stieg Larsson:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/09/moralist-stieg-larsson/
"The Millenium trilogy offers much entertainment typical of genre fiction: the
puzzle of the complex crime in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the suspense of
the police investigation in The Girl Who Played with Fire, the drama of the
political thriller in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. None of this is
remarkable. What is surprising is the novels’ energetic focus on ethical issues
and in particular the question of retribution. Fear and courage, so often
central to thrillers and suspense narratives, are hardly discussed or
dramatized; nor does Larsson make more than token efforts to have us really
worry for his characters. We feel he is going through the motions when he has
Blomkvist with a noose around his neck at the end of part one, or when Salander
is shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave at the end of part two. We
know our heroes are in no real danger because Larsson is not interested in
these predicaments and makes little effort to imagine them. They are comic
strip material. His two main characters themselves seem aware of this and hence
are quite fearless. Half choked, apparently about to die, Blomkvist has time to
reflect of his torturer, who is explaining how his father abused him: “Good
Lord, what a revoltingly sick family.”
What matters instead is the division of the world into good and evil, a
division that begins with splitting sex into positive and negative experiences,
then ripples out from that in fascinating ways. On the side of rape and abuse
are Nazism and anti-Semitism (the Vanger family includes many Nazi
sympathizers), every kind of large organization (which is always understood as
conspiratorial and always at some point involved in preying on young women),
government, the secret services, big business, fundamentalist religion, and so
on."
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