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If you want to read the very best of contemporary Swedish noir I highly recommend the Harry Kvist trilogy by Martin Holmén (http://www.martinholmen.se/english.html). Set in the 1930s it is also, very deliberately, a comment on our own times. > > The politics of the ten Beck novels by Sjöwall & Wahlöö tend to become more > obvious as the series progresses. If you don’t feel like reading all ten in > chronological order, but want to give them one more chance, I suggest you > skip to ”The Abominable Man” (the 7th book, published in 1971). You could > also search out the film based on this story, ”The Man on the Roof” (1976, > directed by Sweden’s greatest director of the second half of the 20th > century, Bo Widerberg). > > However, I do think that there is some exaggeration regarding the progressive > character of the Beck novels. As is often the case with stories that focus a > bit too narrowly on alienation, they tend to remain individualistic and can > be read almost as easily as a conservative critique of modernism and the > welfare state. > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/daniel.lindvall%40filmint.nu _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
