Björn recenserade The Woman in Black av Susan Hill
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3 stjärnor
...Which is really 3.5, maybe even 4 on deliberation. It is "just" a ghost story, and as such one that's been done before (equal parts Hound of the Baskervilles and The Turn of the Screw), but it's a very effective one, making subtle use of the time it's set in (post-WW1, in a society that's barely recovered from being thrust into the modern age and is still catching up) and the illusion of control over things beyond our reach; the fog rolls in and obscures things, whether we want it to or not, unless it refuses to. Also, props to Hill for letting the text be part of the story - Kipps tells the story in the language of his time (mostly very well captured by the Swedish translator too), as if to point out to us, the readers, that we cannot change it, that we can only watch …
...Which is really 3.5, maybe even 4 on deliberation. It is "just" a ghost story, and as such one that's been done before (equal parts Hound of the Baskervilles and The Turn of the Screw), but it's a very effective one, making subtle use of the time it's set in (post-WW1, in a society that's barely recovered from being thrust into the modern age and is still catching up) and the illusion of control over things beyond our reach; the fog rolls in and obscures things, whether we want it to or not, unless it refuses to. Also, props to Hill for letting the text be part of the story - Kipps tells the story in the language of his time (mostly very well captured by the Swedish translator too), as if to point out to us, the readers, that we cannot change it, that we can only watch in dawning horror and hope the fog will hide the worst bits.