Björn recenserade Tand: [Erzählungen] av Ulrika Wallenström
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4 stjärnor
Erpenbeck writes short stories less like a writer than as a painter. She picks a motif (a moment, a feeling, a line of dialogue, a fundamental trauma) and then she spends 5-20 pages sketching it from different angles, until she arrives at that one brush stroke that sums up the reason she wrote the story in the first place.
It's not exactly fluffy fun reading, and like her debut there are times it feels a bit overly cerebral, but it's incredibly impressive in its sheer precision, and she hits that one pulse point often enough to make it sting.
Erpenbeck writes short stories less like a writer than as a painter. She picks a motif (a moment, a feeling, a line of dialogue, a fundamental trauma) and then she spends 5-20 pages sketching it from different angles, until she arrives at that one brush stroke that sums up the reason she wrote the story in the first place.
It's not exactly fluffy fun reading, and like her debut there are times it feels a bit overly cerebral, but it's incredibly impressive in its sheer precision, and she hits that one pulse point often enough to make it sting.