Lena Andersson
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| Original Title: | Egenmäktigt förfarande: en roman om kärlek |
| ISBN: | 912713699X (ISBN13: 9789127136991) |
| Edition Language: | Swedish |
| Series: | Ester Nilsson #1 |
| Characters: | Hugo Rask, Ester Nilsson |
| Literary Awards: | Augustpriset for Fiction (2013), Svenska Dagbladets litteraturpris (2013) |
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Ester Nilsson är 31. Hon är poet och essäist och en förnuftig människa i en förnuftig relation. En dag i juni får hon ett samtal med en förfrågan om att hålla ett föredrag om konstnären Hugo Rask. I publiken sitter konstnären själv, hänförd, och de två möts för första gången efter föreläsningen. Från och med nu ska återstoden av hennes tillvaro hänga samman med detta till sin avsikt helt oskyldiga samtal. Knappast något som senare sker skulle ha haft samma inverkan utan den händelsekedja som nu sätts igång. Ett slags kärlekshistoria inleds mellan Ester Nilsson och Hugo Rask, banal i sin enkelhet, storslagen i sin fullständiga hängivenhet. Egenmäktigt förfarande är en berättelse om hur villiga vi är att bedra oss själva i vår önskan att bli älskade.Mention About Books Egenmäktigt förfarande (Ester Nilsson #1)
| Title | : | Egenmäktigt förfarande (Ester Nilsson #1) |
| Author | : | Lena Andersson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 205 pages |
| Published | : | August 20th 2013 by Natur & Kultur (first published 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Swedish Literature. Contemporary. Romance. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 7941 Users | 803 ReviewsCommentary About Books Egenmäktigt förfarande (Ester Nilsson #1)
I've been contemplating about the nature of love and its many aspects: the people involved, their psychology and behavior under its influence; the effect--exalting, nauseating and everything in between--it has on other activities of the daily routine; expectations it engenders, fulfills, or thwarts; responsibilities, if any, its participants owe one another; role of (William James's) two-minds problem in its many enchantments and disillusions, to list a few.In the wonderfully crafted narrativeA piercing and brutal book about the self-delusion involved in falling in love. The writing is flat and a little distancing, but the story is sharp and pulls no punches.
I can't do better than Julie Myerson's Guardian review: "Though the cover would have us believe this is a novel about love, Im not so sure: I think its a novel about shame. The shame of rejection, the shame of self-deception, the blushing, excruciating shame that comes of being the one without the power, the one who longs the hardest and cares the most. All Ester wants is for Rask to return her feelings, to love her back, to claim her. But when she takes his hand in public it squirms like a
This has won a prestigious award in Sweden. And just like that, I know that I can never trust those awards. Ever. Again. The only reason I made it past the 5% mark was that I wanted to write an angry review, and I can't do that with less than 5% read. So I read on, and by 50% I was both less angry and actually getting used to the incredibly annoying, pretentious and outdated language. (And then I finished it.) When I start to count the amounts of "ty" (old-fashioned "because") in a modern book,
What can I say that will convince you to give this short, Swedish novel a chance? Our youngish heroine, Ester, a poet and essayist, begins a flirtation with an older artist named Hugo. Due to a tendency on her part to read too much into things, and an apparent refusal on his part to just be direct, miscommunication of the most familiar sort ensues. Whats really going on is pretty obvious to us, the readers, but not to poor Ester. Not only does she misread the entire situation, but,
The phrase Egenmäktigt förfarande refers to the Swedish crime when someone is taking the law into his own hands and blocking or otherwise preventing something so the owner is restrained from using it. Philosophically, the term might be used in other situations, according to the author. The philosophical poet Ester meets the artist Hugo and falls desperately in love. Or, perhaps the right word is obsessed. The relationship, or what it is, is far from equal and Ester does everything and anything
unrequited love hurts , it is even agonizing to read about it in this brutally detailed story about love, hope and self deception. the novel perfectly depicts the seemingly never ending circle that the loving party is entrapped in; hope, misery, disillusionment and then, after the smallest contact with the beloved, destructive hope again. from book:--the dreadful gulf between thought and words, will and expression, reality and unreality, and the things that flourish in that gulf are what this
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