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Sober dangerous

Merethe Lindstrøm has written a book about being afraid of your loved ones and enduring it without being able to




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

experience near is a kind of science flaw that it is not good to say what it means, but it is a word that falls into me as I read Merethe Lindström's Nothing about the dark. Lindstrøm describes the perception of everyday life as anything but everyday: It is about how to suddenly follow a man on the street and be out of time, because what you do is so unexpected. Lindström's experience of closeness is philosophically based, taking into account that everyday perception can be transcendent, almost psychotic.

More traditional psychoses are here, too. The protagonist Stein thinks of his psychotic father, whom he grew up with, as he roams around the city, searching for his son, whom he has reason to be fearless. The search for the son lasts throughout the book, giving the story a sharp thrill. Eventually, the center of gravity is shifted, to most of the emotion lies in the story of Stein's own father.

Lindstrøm's sobriety makes the unbearable in the two father-son relationships emerge. Even the two stories are so far apart that they look lonely – the boy who is helpless and helpless at home in the village with his mad father is far away from the man he stays in the city. A man who, after all, manages and looks for his son.

The linguistic precision and the low tone of voice also make it possible to take in what is of extreme emotion. The strategies are heartbreaking, both with Stein's crazy father, Stein when he is a father, and Stein when he is a child: “I did not take the school bus anymore. If I went on that bus, I would disappear, it took nineteen minutes to walk across the fields. But the size, I kept thinking, the size that represented the difficulties, seemed to stay constant, so it had to be the right strategy ”.

In the still implicit debate about the large and the small literature, the latter also called family literature, is Nothing about a darkness a post that there is a distinction that has no meaning. Merethe Lindstrøm is not the most abusive in the media image, but has quietly delivered books since 1983. This quiet book makes one wish that the media laws were repealed and that there were no spectacular stories and sharp elbows heard.

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