Björn recenserade Den genomskinliga rättikan av Göran Malmqvist
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Very mixed collection of short stories and novellas, ranging from sublime magic realism (The Transparent Carrot) to brilliant political satire (A Long Distance Race 30 Years Ago) to village stories that are likable enough but seem more like fragments that never found a novel to fit into.
Considering how much he's been criticized for not being sufficiently political - and thereby, in a political climate, the wrong kind of political - it's perhaps telling how many of his stories involve characters that are mute or at least silent by choice.
Very mixed collection of short stories and novellas, ranging from sublime magic realism (The Transparent Carrot) to brilliant political satire (A Long Distance Race 30 Years Ago) to village stories that are likable enough but seem more like fragments that never found a novel to fit into.
Considering how much he's been criticized for not being sufficiently political - and thereby, in a political climate, the wrong kind of political - it's perhaps telling how many of his stories involve characters that are mute or at least silent by choice.