Nikanor Teratologen
Autor de Assisted Living
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Illustration by Pär Boström for Swedish newspaper Norrbottens-Kuriren, 2010
Obras de Nikanor Teratologen
Obras relacionadas
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Nikanor Teratologen
- Nombre legal
- Lundkvist, Niclas
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1964
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Sweden
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 180
- Popularidad
- #119,865
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 9
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 4
Five stars for the first 100 pages and 1 for the remaining 224. Difficult to rate and review, Assisted Living tests the stomach of the reader but yields rich albeit uneasy laughter to the intrepid. The narrative occurs in rural Sweden, an elderly man and his grandson face the quotidian, with the targets of alcohol, incest, torture, rape, and murder. This occurs in a Sweden of the margins of the (already dried up) welfare state. A Sweden with no opportunity nor civility. Each page is a dense thicket of historical and literary references. Such bounty comes at a cost. It likely isn't for you. A simple exercise should suffice. Killing Jews is as about as difficult as gaying up Foucault. If that statement bothered you in the least, then avoid this and find your joy elsewhere.… (más)