A look at the life and work of author Stieg Larsson

with Eva Gedin and Sonny Mehta
in Books
on Monday, May 24, 2010 * * * * *

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A look at the life and work of author Stieg Larsson with publishers Eva Gedin and Sonny Mehta

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suspense
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    1. Goya57  05/30/2010 04:53 PM Report

      As a survivor of many forms of male-inflicted violence and personal invasive destruction, I highly and strongly recommend "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" for any and all women like myself!

      Unless you, too, have suffered such inhumane humiliations and degradations, you will never understand this movie's appeal for US!

    2. REMant  05/25/2010 01:59 PM Report

      I've seen the three films, as I wrote when you talked about the release here of the first, and found them disturbing, but I guess I'll have to try reading the books. Books generally are better than the movies made from them, even if, like P D James and Le Carre, they are full of extraneous nonsense. And I'm sure if there are American versions made, they will be even worse, and twisted as well. As I said also this really is in the line of protest against the Scandinavian welfare govts, and not so different from Dirty Harry.

      Re progenitors among detectives there's Tommy & Tuppence, Wimsey and Harriet Vane, even Nancy Drew, tho pretty old-fashioned, but it is far from unusual to include a relationship in this kind of work. Novels were written for women, and often by women from the start. In Northanger Abbey Austen makes fun of the genre. As was pointed out this is a good deal less sentimental, but she succumbs to some extent in the last film. There are a number of "new" women protagonists now I've not read much of, but on TV there's been the characters played by Amanda Burton and Helen Mirren. And there seemingly always have been Amazons.

      What is unusual here is the tie to skinhead or goth sub-culture, and so far from seeming critical of extremist groups, it appears to justify them as critics of the welfare state, as the Fascists, themselves, did and Machiavelli before. It is thus surprising to me for it to be so popular when we are seeing evidence everyday of what seems to be exactly the opposite - protests against the loss of benefits - but the two can be related if it is realized that Fascism is nevertheless a type of socialism, and rooted in what E P Thompson called the moral economy. This is no doubt difficult to understand here where all the kids seem to do is wear baggy pants, turn their hats around, spray-paint stuff, and generally act "beat." But in this context the title insisted on - Men Who Hate Women - is curious.